90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.

— George Washington Carver

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

— George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

— George Washington Carver

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

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

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

— George Washington Carver

How do I talk to the flower? Through it, I walk to the Infinite. And what is the infinite? It is that silent, small force. It isn't the outer physical contact. No, it isn't that. The infinite is not confirmed in the visible world. It is not in the earthquake, the wind or the fire. It is that still small voice that calls up the fairies. Yet when you look out upon God's beautiful world-there it is. When you look onto the heart of a rose there you experience it- but you can't explain it. There are certain things, often very little things, like the peanut, the little piece of clay, the little flower that cause you to look within-and then you see the soul of things.

— George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on onyour 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

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