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Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

Benjamin Carson

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Basketball Football Inspirational
When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Awe Brain Looks
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
BENJAMIN CARSON

God Please Purpose Serving
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Back Cool Getting Low Pat Student Went
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Information People Way
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Government People Suppose
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Attack People Racist Thinking White
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fighting Knowledge Past Power
If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agendas Black Life Pro
We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
BENJAMIN CARSON

Dog Rabbit Today
We’ll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christ Jesus Safe
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because 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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
BENJAMIN CARSON

Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Risk Wise
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Problem School Thinking Winning
I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Determination Hands Skills

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

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Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

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