Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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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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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.
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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.
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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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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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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.
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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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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Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
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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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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 is no short cut to acheivement.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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