Ben Carson Quotes
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So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.
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What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
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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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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!
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But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic.
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You have yourself to blame.
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I was confident that something good would come out of yet another difficult and disappointing case.
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One of the great truths of life: I did not do it alone. I had help along the way.
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When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.
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When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
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We don't necessarily have to play by the strict rules if we can find a way that works better, as long as it's reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody.
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I always pray before any of the operations.
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Because they believed in my ability , I was able to believe in it as well.
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying.
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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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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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We have no time for excuses.
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It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
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Jesus Is All the World to Me.