I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
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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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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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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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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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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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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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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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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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When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
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