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Failure
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
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Fame
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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
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God
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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.
-George Washington Carver
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Hope
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
-George Washington Carver
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Nature
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
-George Washington Carver
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Planning
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Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
-George Washington Carver
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Secrets
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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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Service
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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 strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
-George Washington Carver
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Books by and about George Washington Carver