Ben Carson Quotes

You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.

"You do your best, we do the rest." That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying.

We don't necessarily have to play by the strict rules if we can find a way that works better, as long as it's reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody.

I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help.

If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?

I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.