Quotes by 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.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom”

“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 love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

“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.”

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world”

“There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isnt worth anything.”

“If you love it enough, anything will talk with 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.”

“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.”

“We have become ninety-nine 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.”

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in”

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

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

“More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.”

“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.”

“A lot of people think we are a total magnet school, ... Really, we are an elementary school with a magnet component. Its kind of like we have two schools under one roof. We have Program A, which is the neighborhood school, and Program B, which is the arts magnet school.”

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind”

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise”

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”