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George Washington Carver Quotes

Best Quotes by George Washington Carver (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
  3. When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
  4. 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.' And he told me.
  5. Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
  6. Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
  7. 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.
  8. God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.
  9. Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
  10. No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

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