Ben Carson Quotes (191 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Speech in Harlem https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-should-follow-ben-carsons-lead-on-black-lives-matter/2015/08/17/cd242572-44d7-11e5-8e7d-9c033e6745d8_story.html (August 2015).

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“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 20

“Abraham Lincoln once said, "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother." I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 16

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“Reading activates and exercises the mind.
Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts.
Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”

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Tweet https://twitter.com/realbencarson/status/395168268920836096 (29 October 2013)

“Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.”

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“If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.”

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“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 152
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Context: THINK BIG means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead.
T=TALENT : If you recognize your talents, use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, you will rise to the top of your field.
H=HONEST : If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement.
I=INSIGHT : If we observe and reflect and commit ourselves to giving our best, we will come out on top.
N=NICE : If we are nice to others, other respond to us in the same way, and we can give our best for each other.
K=KNOWLEDGE : If we make every attempt to increase our knowledge in order to use it for human go, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
B=BOOKS : If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
I=IN-DEPTH LEARNING : If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
G=GOD : If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

“Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“…the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…”

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“One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.”

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“By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.”

Ben Carson

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

“How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?”

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Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 47

“It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 159

“Responsible human beings must be concerned about our surroundings and what we will pass on to future generations. However, to use climate change as an excuse not to develop our God-given resources makes little sense.”

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"CARSON: Expanding our energy resources serves peace" http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/25/carson-energys-role-in-the-path-to-peace/, The Washington Times (March 25, 2014)

“It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 193

“We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.”

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Fourth Republican debate https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/10/well-be-annotating-the-gop-debate-here/ (10 November 2015).

“There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.”

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"Famed Surgeon Ben Carson on Overcoming Adversity" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4633158, National Public Radio (May 6, 2005)

“By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior. For if there is no such thing as moral authority, you can do anything you want. You make everything relative, and there’s no reason for any of our higher values.”

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As quoted in "Evolution? No" http://archives.adventistreview.org/2004-1509/story2.html, The Adventist Review (2004)

“Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.”

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Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 84

“We don't have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 146

“In our culture, security has become an obsession.”

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Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 7

“After all my thinking and praying, my decision came down to the fact that I felt obligated to do everything I could to help.”

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Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 21

“Because they believed in my ability, I was able to believe in it as well.”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 60

“Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 86

“It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.”

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Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 36

“My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 57

“I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 92

“"You do your best, we do the rest." That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 46

“If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 84

“I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Ben Carson: Big Bang A Fairy Tale, Theory Of Evolution Encouraged By The Devil" http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ben-carson-big-bang-a-fairy-tale-theory-of-evolution-encoura#.scwEnmYlG, Buzzfeed News (September 22, 2015)

“I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.”

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As quoted in "Ben Carson has an odd plan for the Dept of Education" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-has-odd-plan-the-dept-education, MSNBC (October 22, 2015)

“Only God knows the beginning and the end.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 122

“This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 9

“Absolutely. Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.”

Ben Carson

On whether homosexuality is a choice, as quoted in "Ben Carson apologizes for comments on gay people" http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/04/politics/ben-carson-prisons-gay-choice/, CNN, (March 5, 2015)

“Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 147

“I believe God has a specific purpose for me – and for every other person to whom he gives the gift of life.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 133

“Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 236

“I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 121