Ben Carson: Quotes about life

Ben Carson is 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

Ben Carson

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

“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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

“She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.”

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Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 18

“Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”

Ben Carson

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 59

“Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.”

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Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 68

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

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 244

“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

“Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.”

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Source: Think Big (1996), p. 207

“I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 69

“Whenever I face a hard decision or a risky situation in life (personally or professionally), all my thinking, all my analysis, all my planning can be boiled down to four simple questions:
1. What is the best thing that can happen if I do this?
2. What is the worst thing that can happen if I do this?
3. What is the best thing that can happen if I don't do it?
4. What is the worst thing that can happen if I don't do it?”

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

“The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.”

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Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 51

“Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them.”

Ben Carson

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 175