Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- 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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- 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
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
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- 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
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
Washington, where an insignificant individual
may trespass on a nation's time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Where the press is free and every man
is able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
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