Quotes by Ben Carson

About Ben Carson:

Benjamin Solomon is an American author, politician, and retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon. On May 4, 2015, Carson announced he was running for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election at a rally in Detroit, his hometown.
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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?

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It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

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Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for...

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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

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There is no freedom without bravery.

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Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately, while wisdom is frequently more proactive and additionally encourages the shaping of the environment.

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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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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which event...

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When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

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If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing app...

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While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

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Do your best and let God do the rest.

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One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

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Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

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We were very poor. But between the covers of books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. As I read those stories, I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that th...

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Author Bio

  • NameBen Carson
  • DescriptionAmerican neurosurgeon
  • AliasesBenjamin Solomon Carson
  • BornSeptember 18, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychologist; Neurosurgeon; Politician
  • AwardsSpingarn Medal; Presidential Medal Of Freedom