George Washington Carver Quotes

From a child,

I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music,

painting, flowers, and the sciences,

Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

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.

God cannot use you as He wishes until you come

into the fullness of His Glory, Do not get alarmed,

my friend,

when doubts creep in.

That is old Satan.

Pray,

pray,

pray.

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.

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.

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.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind,

we must therefore stimulate and encourage

that type of mind in every way possible.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,

and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

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.

There is no short cut to achievement.

Life requires thorough preparation

veneer isn't worth anything.

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.

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.

If you love it enough,

anything will talk with you.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness

of the woods before sunrise.