Quotes from George Washington Carver

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.

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.

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.

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.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

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

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.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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 some day in life you will have been all of these.

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.