George Washington Carver Quotes

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

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can’t do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

There is a use for almost everything.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.