Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
—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
Topics: Action, Life, Kindness, Virtue, Excellence, Goodness, Fame
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
Topics: Love
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.
—George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation—veneer isn’t worth anything.
—George Washington Carver
Topics: Achievement
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
—George Washington Carver
Topics: Gardening, Nature
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
Topics: God, Nature
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
—George Washington Carver
Topics: Vision, Hope
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