Benjamin Carson Quotes
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The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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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.
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I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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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.
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It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.
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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.
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If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.
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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
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If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.
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Stop thinking of failing.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.