George Washington Carver Quotes

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  • 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: His Life & Faith in His Own Words". Book by William J. Federer, 2003.
  • I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

    George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.132, University of Missouri Press
  • 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 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.

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

    Dream   Lying   Teaching  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, p. 107, 1982.
  • Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

  • 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.

    Nature  
  • 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, Gary R. Kremer (1987). “George Washington Carver in his own words”
  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Without my Savior, I am nothing.

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

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

  • 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, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.165, University of Missouri Press
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • There is a use for almost everything.

  • 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.

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    George Washington Carver

    • Born: 1865
    • Died: January 5, 1943
    • Occupation: Scientist