Ben Carson Quotes
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It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.
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I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.
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Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.
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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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Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be.
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By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior. For if there is no such thing as moral authority, you can do anything you want. You make everything relative, and there’s no reason for any of our higher values.
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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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We don't have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Attitude.
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The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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I've never known a case yet where worry helped.
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Faith, by definition, is a risk.
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Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
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You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.
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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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She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.
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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.
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You have to try, you have to do everything you can.
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That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.
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When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help.
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Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.