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 CARVEROne 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
-
-
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
There is no short cut to acheivement.
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 -
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
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 -
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
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 -
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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 -
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 -
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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 -
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
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 -
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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 -
It is simply service that measures success.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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 CARVER