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.
BEN CARSON
BEN CARSON
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Ben Carson111 quotes“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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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.
Ben CarsonBen Carson What you’re saying is that ‘I, the superior elite, will take care of you.’ Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can’t be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson 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.
Ben CarsonBen Carson If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
Ben CarsonBen Carson When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
Ben CarsonBen Carson I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.
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I managed to cut myself loose and while there was pain – there weren’t any blood.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh Free will exist only in a confused mind.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland If you are true to yourself, you are already a winner.
Alex DanielAlex Daniel You deserve words that remind you of your value.
Saif Ali ManganSaif Ali Mangan Do always wonder about your worth and remind yourself that even roses have their own thorns.
Megan LaoMegan Lao I’m like sugar in the coffee. Stir me and I’ll dissolve into you.
BelaBela Plans have changed. Life looks different. & now we’re all figuring it out as we go.
Tanya GillTanya Gill Be loyal to those loyal to you.
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