Top 100 Ben Carson Quotes
#1. Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
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#2. Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.
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#3. Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.
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#5. When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best - no matter how good - is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.
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#6. By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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#7. 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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#8. Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
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#9. 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 the next.
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#10. Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright
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#11. Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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#12. There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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#13. 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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#14. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
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#15. I would love it if party labels were not allowed on ballots and people were forced to actually know who they were voting for. Blind loyalty to a party platform is tantamount to relinquishing the important duties of intelligent voting.
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#16. I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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#17. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. They forbid the use of the word slavery by conservatives, the mention of Nazism by conservatives, or the mention of homosexuality in anything other than a positive context, to name a few of their rules.
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#22. To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will
we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.
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#23. Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.
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#24. There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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#25. My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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#26. We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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#27. If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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#28. Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.
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#29. I am fond of saying that if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.
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#30. I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.
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#31. The doors of the world are open to dose who can read.
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#32. 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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#33. One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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#34. Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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#35. Close the wounds, and the 22-hour surgical ordeal was over. The Siamese
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#36. Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
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#37. There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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#38. Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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#39. The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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#40. If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
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#41. I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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#42. 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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#43. Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.
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#44. Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.
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#45. No knowledge is ever wasted. To quote the apostle Paul: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28).
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#46. 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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#47. When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow - acting according to its own prerogatives - it ceases to be a representative government and instead has transformed into something else. One
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#48. If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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#49. all. Unfortunately, polarizing influences - such as unions that want what they want, gay rights groups, isolationists, and others who cannot or will not consider the opinions of others - have become stronger in recent years, robbing from the pool of moderate legislators and increasing the numbers
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#50. 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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#51. The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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#52. We all have choices in the way we react to the words we hear. Our lives and the lives of all those around us will be significantly improved if we choose to react positively rather than negatively.
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#53. I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
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#54. I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
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#55. We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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#56. When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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#57. We can help our nation quite a bit if we refrain from getting into our respective corners and throwing hand grenades at each other, and instead try to understand the other's viewpoint, reject the stifling of political correctness, and engage in intelligent civil discussion.
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#58. You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
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#59. The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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#60. Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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#61. One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.
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#62. 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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#63. Through education, I was completely changed to become a productive citizen of the world. And what is true in the life of one is true in the life of whole communities and entire nations: education has the power to transform.
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#64. Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.
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#65. 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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#66. When politicians prioritize local rule instead of trying to force the whole country to agree with them, I think the pursuit of happiness will be within the reach of a far greater portion of our populace.
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#67. I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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#68. I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
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#69. But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
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#70. In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.
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#71. I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.
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#72. I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
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#73. The P.C. police are out in force at all times ... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
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#74. 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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#75. Or not they plan to keep the baby. They
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#76. I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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#77. In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
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#78. In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution,
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#79. 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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#80. We want to make decisions based on facts. Many people do not. They make their decisions based on what their momma says or what their daddy says or what their political party says - without engaging their brains.
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#81. Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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#82. 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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#83. Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34
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#84. Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.
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#85. We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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#86. While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
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#87. 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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#88. Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
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#89. What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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#90. 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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#91. 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.
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#92. I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.
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#93. If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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#94. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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#95. 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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#96. I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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#97. 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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#98. God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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#99. This is what we're going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.
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#100. Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests.
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