Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

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

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

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
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

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

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.
George Washington Carver

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver


Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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

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

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
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 can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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