George Washington Carver

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

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

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.

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 would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

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

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.

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.