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.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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.
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.
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.
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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.
