Benjamin Carson Quotes
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.
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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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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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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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When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.
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I think God's a pretty fair guy.
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God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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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.
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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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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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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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You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
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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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If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.
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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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By thinking big, we can transform our world.