George Washington Carver Quotes

“To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there.”

“Science is simply the truth about anything.”

“Inspiration is never at variance with information; in fact the more information one has, the greater will be the inspiration.”

“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.”

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

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

“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”

“Neither look up to the rich nor down on the poor.”

“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.”

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

“There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.”

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

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

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

“There is no shortcut to achievement.”

“Creative genius is what makes people respect you. It’s not a color question, it’s a question of whether you have what the world wants.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”