black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

Benjamin Carson

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Corporation Making Money Organization
We’ll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
BENJAMIN CARSON

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

Dark Night Skeletons
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important Our Success World
Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Appropriately Assess Really Risk Unless
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Responsibility Self
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
God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cells God Inspirational
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Fire Men
I’m a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It’s not the government’s job.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Confused Jobs Responsibility
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement Ignorance Reading
Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Belief Crazy Gay
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Feelings Special Underestimate
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

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benjamin Carson Quotes