Quotes from George Washington Carver

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.

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

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.

My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

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

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.

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

90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.

Education is understanding relationships.

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.

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

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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

It is simply service that measures success.

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.