Ben Carson: Trending quotes

“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

Failure , Success

“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Knowledge , Decision , Change , Past

“Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Life , Truth , Time

“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

Life , Hope

“In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 233

People , Understanding , Knowledge , Learning

“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

Life , Help

“God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

God , Help

“When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Love , God , People , World

“Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 216
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

People , Knowledge

“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

Exercises , Imagination , Reading

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will—we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can't win,” we moan. “They won't let us win.”However, if we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Whatever direction we choose, if we can realize that every hurdle we jump strengthens and prepares us for the next one, we're already on the way to success.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 232

People , Way , Problem , Thinking

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

Ben Carson

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

Happiness

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 255

God

“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

God , World , Personality

“Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

People , Problem , Success

“God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 154

God

“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

God , Help

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

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

World

“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

World , Learning , Help

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

Ben Carson