Ben Carson Quotes:- Ben Carson (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.
Inspirational Ben Carson Quotes
“Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams.”
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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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“When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.”
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“It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.”
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“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.”
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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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“Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.”
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“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.”
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“There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.”
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50+ Famous Quotes by Ben Carson
“The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.”
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“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.”
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“definitely an at-risk kid growing up.”
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“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.”
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“It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.”
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“You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.”
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“And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.”
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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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40+ Ben Carson Quotes on Life, Learning, and Faith
“We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.”
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“Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.”
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“There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.”
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“I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.”
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“I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.”
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“You’re going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn’t necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, ‘Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'”
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“We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.”
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“Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third-grade playground.”
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30+ Powerful Ben Carson Quotes About God and Faith
“So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.”
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“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.”
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“Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.”
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“Corporations are not in business to be social welfare organizations; they are there to make money.”
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“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.”
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“Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.”
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“Economics is not brain surgery.”
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“Our strength as a nation comes from 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.”
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“We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients but also the health of our entire society.”
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Top 10Ben Carson Quotes and Sayings
“Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.”
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“People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.”
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“My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.”
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“We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say because somebody might be offended. We’ve got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.”
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“What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.”
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“You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.”
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“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.”
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“I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.”
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“With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don’t learn, then it’s an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you’re able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.”
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“I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.”
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