George Washington Carver Quotes

Education is understanding relationships.

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

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

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.

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.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

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.

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

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

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

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.

My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and often many times a day, to permit me to speak to Him through the three great Kingdoms of the world which He has created - the animal, mineral, and vegetable Kingdoms - to understand their relations to each other, and our relations to them and to the Great God who made all of us. I ask Him daily and often momently to give me wisdom, understanding, and bodily strength to do His will; hence I am asking and receiving all the time.

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

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.

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

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 South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

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.

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.

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.

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

There is a use for almost everything.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

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.

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.

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

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.

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

I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

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.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

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

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.

My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

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.

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

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

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