One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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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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There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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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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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
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