Ben Carson Quotes
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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?
I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
There is no freedom without bravery.
To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.
If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.
If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.