Benjamin Carson

Benjamin Carson

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Benjamin Carson (b. 1951) is an American neurosurgeon and politician who left an enduring mark on the world through both deeds and words. With equal ease, Benjamin Carson moved between Government and Faith, finding connections others missed. Our collection includes 53 quotes from Benjamin Carson, touching on Government, Faith, Wisdom, Knowledge, and Health — a testament to just how much they had to say. Among their most shared lines: "Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away."

“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.”

— Benjamin Carson

Best

All Quotes by Benjamin Carson

“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.”

— Benjamin Carson

Best

“Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.”

— Benjamin Carson

Faith

“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'”

— Benjamin Carson

Education

“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.”

— Benjamin Carson

Dreams

“In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.”

— Benjamin Carson

Wisdom

“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”

— Benjamin Carson

Leadership

“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

Government

“You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.”

— Benjamin Carson

Christmas

“When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I 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

Cool

“We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.”

— Benjamin Carson

Attitude

“Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.”

— Benjamin Carson

Faith

“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.”

— Benjamin Carson

Freedom

“The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.”

— Benjamin Carson

Faith

“People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.”

— Benjamin Carson

Government

“I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.”

— Benjamin Carson

Wisdom

“There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.”

— Benjamin Carson

Famous

“Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.”

— Benjamin Carson

Freedom

“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

Nature

“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”

— Benjamin Carson

Education

“With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.”

— Benjamin Carson

Failure