Top 65 George Washington Carver Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. 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.
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#11. 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
#15. 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
#16. Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
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#18. Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
George Washington Carver
#19. 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.
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#21. Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer ...
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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#26. I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.
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#29. 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 are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.
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#30. When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
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#32. 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.
George Washington Carver
#33. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'
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#38. God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.
George Washington Carver
#42. Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill ... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
George Washington Carver
#43. 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
#45. 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.
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#47. Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.
George Washington Carver
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. 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
#52. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world
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#53. There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
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#54. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.
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#55. 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.
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#56. There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
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#59. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
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#63. 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 ...
George Washington Carver
#64. 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.
George Washington Carver
#65. I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets ...
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