We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERDo what you can, with what you have and do it now!
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
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My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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