George Washington Carver
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.Collection: Nature
There is no shortcut to achievement.Collection: Persistence
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.Collection: Caring
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.Collection: Work
I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .Collection: Giving Up
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.Collection: Beautiful
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.Collection: Love
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.Collection: Nature
I think I'll sleep now.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Color
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.Collection: Death
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .Collection: Success
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.Collection: Educational
There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.Collection: Two
All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.Collection: Flower
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.Collection: Listening
You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.Collection: Teaching
Education is understanding relationships.Collection: Educational
It is simply service that measures success.Collection: Measure Of Success
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.Collection: Discovery
There is a use for almost everything.Collection: Use
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.Collection: Hate
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.Collection: Prayer
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.Collection: Mean
My purpose alone must be God's purpose.Collection: Purpose
Without my Savior, I am nothing.Collection: Savior
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Doors
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.Collection: Hands
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.Collection: Art
I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.Collection: Humanity
One 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.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Hate
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.Collection: Success
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.Collection: Creativity