George Washington Carver Quotes, Thoughts and images

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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

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

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

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.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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

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

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.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

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.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

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

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

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

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

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

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

Education is understanding relationships.

It is simply service that measures success.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

There is a use for almost everything.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

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

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

There is no shortcut to achievement.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets .

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

I think I'll sleep now.

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

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .