George Washington Carver Quotes (29 Quotes)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.

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.

God gave them the discoveries to me how can I sell them to someone else.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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

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.

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