Best Quotes by George Washington Carver (Top 10)
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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.
George Washington Carver
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
George Washington Carver
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
George Washington Carver
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.
George Washington Carver
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver
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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also " if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver
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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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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.
George Washington Carver
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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
George Washington Carver