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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
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
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
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.
- George Washington Carver
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
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
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
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
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
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
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
I do not hold fear about what is happening in the world.
I am responsible for how I conduct myself in the events of my days,
and endeavor to not dwell in fear about anything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
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