George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist, agricultural scientist and inventor. He made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets. Inspirational George Washington Carver quotes about learning, education, race, and God will motivate you to follow for your dreams.
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Most Famous George Washington Carver Quotes
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms. George Washington Carver
Ninety nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you. George Washington Carver
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied. George Washington Carver
When our thoughts, which bring actions are filled with hate against anyone, black 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
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
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within. 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
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. George Washington Carver
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. George Washington Carver
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. 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
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
There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong. George Washington Carver
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. George Washington Carver
There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation veneer isn’t worth anything. George Washington Carver
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. 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
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you. George Washington Carver
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied. George Washington Carver
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again. George Washington Carver
I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living. 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
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self. George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation veneer isn’t worth anything. George Washington Carver
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can’t do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest. George Washington Carver
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. 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
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts. 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
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
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 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. 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
Ninety nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. George Washington Carver
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. George Washington Carver
My purpose alone must be God’s purpose. George Washington Carver
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in God be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again. George Washington Carver
I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit. 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
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you. George Washington Carver
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith. 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
To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard. George Washington Carver Quotes
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within. 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
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith. George Washington Carver
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self. George Washington Carver
The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South Land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people. George Washington Carver
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything. George Washington Carver
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. George Washington Carver
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you. 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
Education is understanding relationships. 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
Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill. George Washington Carver
It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington Carver
You can’t tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it. 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
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
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
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
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
The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful Southland, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people. George Washington Carver
