Ben Carson Quotes

Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.

Risk played a really important role in making me the person I am.

Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.

The greatest and most valuable resources we have for making crucial decision are knowledge and the amazing brainpower God gave human beings when he created us. That's certainly true for deciding our best response to any risk we ever face.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.

Like an adventure who was asked why he climbed the mountain and answered, “Because it's there!” I think our culture has developed this intense love-hate relationship with risk, in part because it's always there.

How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?

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

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

I was confident that something good would come out of yet another difficult and disappointing case.