35 Inspirational George Washington Carver Quotes On Success

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts. Although he spent years developing and promoting numerous products made from peanuts, none became commercially successful. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. May these George Washington Carver Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.” George Washington Carver

2. “Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.” George Washington Carver

3. “When our thoughts, which bring actions are filled with hate against anyone, black or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.” George Washington Carver

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

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

6. “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.” George Washington Carver

7. “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.” George Washington Carver

8. “There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.” George Washington Carver

9. “There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.” George Washington Carver

10. “Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” George Washington Carver

11. “Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.” George Washington Carver

12. “I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.” George Washington Carver

13. “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.” George Washington Carver

14. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” George Washington Carver

15. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver

16. “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.” George Washington Carver

17. “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.” George Washington Carver

18. “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.” George Washington Carver

19. “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver

20. “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.” George Washington Carver

21. “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 God 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.” George Washington Carver

22. “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.” George Washington Carver

23. “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” George Washington Carver

24. “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.” George Washington Carver

25. “Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.” George Washington Carver

26. “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.” George Washington Carver

27. “The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for 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.” George Washington Carver

28. “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.” George Washington Carver

29. “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.” George Washington Carver

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

31. “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” George Washington Carver

32. “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.” George Washington Carver

33. “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.” George Washington Carver

34. “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.” George Washington Carver

35. “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.” George Washington Carver

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