Benjamin Carson
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Thinking
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.Collection: Opportunity
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.Collection: Inspirational
Do your best and let God do the rest.Collection: God
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.Collection: Helping Others
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.Collection: Happy
Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.Collection: Knowledge
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.Collection: Nice
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.Collection: Class
Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.Collection: Country
When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.Collection: Kindness
We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.Collection: Religious
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Pro Life
I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings. Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background - it's very interesting.Collection: Thinking
I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.Collection: Heart
You are what you think.Collection: Thinking
We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.Collection: Jesus
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.Collection: Care
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.Collection: Book
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.Collection: Average
I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order. Now these are the same scientists that go around touting the second law of thermodynamics, which is entropy, which says that things move toward a state of disorganization.Collection: Moving
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.Collection: Crazy
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.Collection: Book
You have yourself to blame.Collection: Blame
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.Collection: Fear
A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.Collection: Together
Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.Collection: Country
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.Collection: Doors
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.Collection: Mistake
You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.Collection: Running
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.Collection: Being Lied
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.Collection: Believe
I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.Collection: Country
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.Collection: Mean
It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.Collection: Religious
It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."Collection: Country
We've gotten into this - this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war. The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.Collection: War
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.Collection: Giving
We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.Collection: Military
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.Collection: Running
If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.Collection: Military
Some people say you're weak because, you know, you're not loud and you're not boisterous and you're not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I've done. And that speaks volumes about strength.Collection: People
If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.Collection: Christian
This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.Collection: Military
We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.Collection: Military
We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.Collection: Isis
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.Collection: Military
I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.Collection: Building Things