Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
-- George Washington Carver
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-- George Washington Carver
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
-- 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
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-- George Washington Carver
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
-- George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.
-- George Washington Carver
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
-- George Washington Carver
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
-- 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
If I know the answer you can have it for the price of a postage stamp. The Lord Charges nothing for knowledge and I will charge you the same.
-- George Washington Carver
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
-- 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
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
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
-- 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
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.
-- George Washington Carver
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