Carver

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."

"[About the rhinoceros:] Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste."

"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing."

"I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination."

— George Washington Carver

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.
George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)

I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson.
George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)

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

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
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