George Washington Carver Quotes

I understand the dignity that comes from work and caring for one's family.

I want to earn it, I don't want anything given to me.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

The old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. We in America have very little sense of interdependence.

I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I never wanted anyone's pity.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone's tunes.

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

Can't nobody take my pride. Can't nobody hold me down.

I don't need to be liked.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.