Benjamin Carson Quotes

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

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.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

I think God's a pretty fair guy.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

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!

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

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.

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.

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

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

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

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

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

Stop thinking of failing.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

We have to take ISIS oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected individuals from all over the place, and they're able to pay them.

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.