George Washington Carver
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.Collection: Love
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Success
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Music
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Home
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.Collection: Life
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.Collection: God
I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.Collection: Money
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.Collection: Life
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Life
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.Collection: Education
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Great
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.'Collection: Great
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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.
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.
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.
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.Collection: Hard Times
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.Collection: God
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.Collection: Dream
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!Collection: New Beginnings
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Money
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.Collection: Simple
My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and often many times a day, to permit me to speak to Him through the three great Kingdoms of the world which He has created - the animal, mineral, and vegetable Kingdoms - to understand their relations to each other, and our relations to them and to the Great God who made all of us. I ask Him daily and often momently to give me wisdom, understanding, and bodily strength to do His will; hence I am asking and receiving all the time.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Education
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.Collection: Common
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.Collection: Prayer
There is no short cut to acheivement.Collection: Cutting
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.Collection: Secret
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.Collection: Giving Up
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.Collection: Mother
As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.Collection: Real
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.Collection: Nature
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.Collection: Discovery
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Teacher
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?Collection: Discovery
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.Collection: Learning
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Flower
The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.Collection: Beautiful
If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.Collection: Enough