George Washington Carver

"At the moment we plant the seed of every thought, we know not what will be its ultimate fate."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

"More than a hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men."

"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."

"There is nothing that will not yield to application."

"We shall make our great experiment of self-government succeed."

"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, how it was put together."

"Being kind and generous makes you happy and makes the world a better place."

"Keep your mind on the things that matter, to the God that you serve."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"The greatest dignity to which the worker may aspire is that of becoming a teacher of others."

"Love is the greatest healing power, but too few realize that it is a power that can be developed."

"I would rather have a little over nothing, than nothing over a great deal."

"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."

"The most beautiful thing in the world is freshness in thinking and action."

"Do not copy what I do. It takes a lifetime to perfect your own craft."

"Every normal man must be interested in woman. That is normal but the tendency nowadays is to push it to an extreme."

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."

"I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was born with."

"Begin where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along."

"The secret is in the soil and in the will to overcome."

"Many of us are living lives as hollow as the clouds that pass over our heads."

"I am not ashamed of my past experience, but rather proud of the opportunity it afforded me to learn something from it."

"The invisible is more powerful than the visible."

"Failure is but a stepping stone to success; each discovery of what is false leads us nearer to what is true."

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

"Take from my experiences my successes and my failures and learn from them."

"Self-interest is a very poor motive for anything."

"You will always be disappointed if you wait for the seeds to grow, then plant them."

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do with what he or she knows that counts."