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“It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 244

Life , God

“So I'm going to say my prayers tonight before I go to sleep. I hope you'll do the same. I believe if we do that, we'll all have less to worry about tomorrow.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 18

Hope , Sleep

“Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 212

People , Knowledge

“Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 67

Life , Death , Universe , Help

“The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.”

Ben Carson

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

Fear

“Faith, by definition, is a risk.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 125

Faith

“What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 261

World , Success

“God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 56

Love , God

“You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.”

Ben Carson

As quoted in "Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2013/10/11/ben-carson-obamacare-worst-thing-since-slavery/, Washington Post (October 11, 2013)

Health , Way , Thinking

“Like an adventure who was asked why he climbed the mountain and answered, “Because it's there!” I think our culture has developed this intense love-hate relationship with risk, in part because it's always there.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 48

Love , Hate , Mountain , Thinking

“Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 197

“Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 58

Effort

“I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.”

Ben Carson

"Interview: Dr. Benjamin Carson Talks Race, Politics and Life After Medicine" http://www.christianpost.com/news/interview-dr-benjamin-carson-talks-race-politics-and-life-after-medicine-91474/, The Christian Post (March 8, 2013)

People , Effort , Help , Personality

“Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 61

Feeling

“Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 100

Success

“I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.”

Ben Carson

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 34

Faith , Feeling , Future

“We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 63

Way

“When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 146

God , Learning