George Washington Carver was an American scientist and inventor who made many contributions to the agricultural industry. He is best known for his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. His research enabled farmers to rotate their crops, which improved soil fertility and provided more diverse sources of income. Following is our collection on famous quotes by George Washington Carver on education, god, success.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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.
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.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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.
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. — George Washington Carver
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. — George Washington Carver
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
Without my Savior, I am nothing.
I think I'll sleep now.
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
There is a use for almost everything.
There is no shortcut to achievement.
You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
My purpose alone must be God's purpose.
George Washington Carver Quotes About Education
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self. — 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
Education is understanding relationships. — George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver Quotes About God
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
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
I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit. — 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
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. — George Washington Carver
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. — 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. — George Washington Carver
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
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
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. — George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver Quotes About Success
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
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well. — George Washington Carver
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now! — George Washington Carver
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . . — George Washington Carver
It is simply service that measures success. — 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
George Washington Carver Quotes About Life
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
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
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — 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
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. — George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver Quotes About Living
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
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
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
We have become 99 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
George Washington Carver Quotes About Love
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 love it enough, anything will talk with you. — George Washington Carver
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you. — George Washington Carver
If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you. — George Washington Carver
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. — George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver Famous Quotes And Sayings
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. — George Washington Carver
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. — 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
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
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
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
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. — 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
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. — George Washington Carver
I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . . — George Washington Carver
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
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. 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. — George Washington Carver
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them. — George Washington Carver
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. — George Washington Carver
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. — 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
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
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. — 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 South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people. — 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
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. — George Washington Carver
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
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. — 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
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.' — George Washington Carver
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. — George Washington Carver
Life Lessons by George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver taught us the importance of hard work and dedication, no matter what obstacles may be in our way. He showed us that with dedication and perseverance, we can achieve our goals and make a difference in the world.
He also taught us the importance of creativity and innovation, and to never be afraid to explore new ideas and think outside the box.
Finally, Carver taught us the importance of humility and to always stay humble and grateful for our successes, no matter how great they may be.
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