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 CARVERThere 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
-
-
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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 -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
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 -
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 -
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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 -
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 -
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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 -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER






