George Washington Carver Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

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  Hard Times, Where You Are, Satisfied

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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.

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  God, Destiny, Size

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• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

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  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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  Love, God, Nature

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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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  Dream, Lying, Teaching

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

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  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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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.

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  Book, Hands, Would Be

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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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  Educational, Leaving, African American

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.1, University of Missouri Press

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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.

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  Money, Mean, Helping Others

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1987). “George Washington Carver in his own words”

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• Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

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  Simple, Bible Reading, Secret

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• My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and often many times a day, to permit me to speak to Him through the three great Kingdoms of the world which He has created - the animal, mineral, and vegetable Kingdoms - to understand their relations to each other, and our relations to them and to the Great God who made all of us. I ask Him daily and often momently to give me wisdom, understanding, and bodily strength to do His will; hence I am asking and receiving all the time.

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  Attitude, Prayer, Animal

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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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  Education, Learning, Race

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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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  Hater, Fear, Roots

  "George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, 1982.

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• All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

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  Flower, Littles, Woods

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• Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

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  Common, Achieving Success, Competence

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• Education is understanding relationships.

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  Educational, Understanding, Intelligence

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• There is no short cut to acheivement.

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  Cutting, Short Cuts

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• If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

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  Listening, Enough, Ifs

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• I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

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  Humanity, Thank God, Interest

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.132, University of Missouri Press

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• It is simply service that measures success.

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  Measure Of Success

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.17, University of Missouri Press

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• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

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  Life, Cutting, Thorough Understanding

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