Ben Carson Quotes

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It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!

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If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

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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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My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

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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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Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

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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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I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.

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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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Knowledge make us valuable. When we have knowledge that other people do not readily have, somebody need us. It does not matter what we look like, or where we came from, if we have something that others have a need for.

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Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt—by forgetting.

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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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Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.

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If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.

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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.

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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.

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Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.

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God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

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It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.

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We can see God's reflection in everything he created.

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I realized my obligations to others should be greater than my obligations to myself.

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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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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

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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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How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?

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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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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

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