George Washington Carver Quotes

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

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

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.

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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

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.

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.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

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.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

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.

My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

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.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

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.

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.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

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.

It is simply service that measures success.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

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

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Education is understanding relationships.