Words matter. These are the best George Washington Carver Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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.
I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.
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.’
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
