Ben Carson Quotes
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.
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You can sense their anger before they even say a word.
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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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This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.
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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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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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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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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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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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If we set our priority 'the removal of all risk', we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.
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I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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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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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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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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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
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I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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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.