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 the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

— George Washington Carver

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

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

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

— George Washington Carver

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

— George Washington Carver

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.

— George Washington Carver

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

— George Washington Carver

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

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.

— George Washington Carver

When I was young I said to God "God tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered "That knowledge is reserved 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