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 the strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these. —George Washington Carver

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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 the strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

botanist, agricultural chemist, inventor, educator

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Joe from MA NOVEMBER 22, 2017
This is one of my favorite quotes of all time. Thank you and God Bless!
sandor from L.A. NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Life it self is the gift. It's not how well we did what we did, but that we got to do it. So keep on treading and keep on doing.
Anonymous NOVEMBER 10, 2017
I love, love, love your website and all the amazing quotes you send out daily!
Keith Hobbs from Daphne, AL  NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Truth!
Jean from Pa. NOVEMBER 10, 2017
This is so true.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. —Henry Clay
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. —Henri Nouwen
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. —David Wilkerson
It is a happiness to wonder—it is a happiness to dream. —Edgar Allen Poe
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. —William Arthur Ward
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. —Thomas Carlyle
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ”Here comes number seventy-one!” —Richard DeVos
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it. —Michael Jordan
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. —Tom Hanks
Freedom is never given; it is won. —A. Phiilip Randolph
There are those whose lives affect all others around them. Quietly touching one heart, who in turn, touches another. Reaching out to ends further than they would ever know. —William Bradfield
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. —Buddha
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. —Saint Augustine
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. —Edward de Bono
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. —Joseph Chilton Pearce

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