We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
BENJAMIN CARSONYou can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
-
-
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
If you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.
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 -
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
BENJAMIN CARSON -
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
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?
BENJAMIN 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.
BENJAMIN CARSON








