Ben Carson Quotes
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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.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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I don't consider myself a 'religious' person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.
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You can sense their anger before they even say a word.
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You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.
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Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
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'You do your best, we do the rest.' That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.
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If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
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Absolutely. Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.
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This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt-by forgetting.
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I believe we have this enormous brains with the ability to process so much information for a purpose – because we were made in God's image, not in the image of an amoeba.
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Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.
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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.
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We can see God's reflection in everything he created.
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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.
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I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.