110+ Ben Carson Quotes on Continuous Learning and Growth

Dr. Benjamin Carson is a world-renowned neurosurgeon and the former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head in 1987. He is also a philanthropist, author, and politician who ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Benjamin Carson on leadership, success, education.

Top 10 Benjamin Carson Quotes

1. Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
2. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third-grade playground.
3. I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.
4. Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
5. Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
6. Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
7. You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Benjamin Carson Short Quotes

• Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
• Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
• The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
• I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
• Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
• I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
• Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
• It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.
• 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
• I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

Benjamin Carson Quotes About Success

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward. — Benjamin Carson

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

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. — Benjamin Carson

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways. — Benjamin Carson

We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about. — Benjamin Carson

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference. — Benjamin Carson

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world. — Benjamin Carson

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

Benjamin Carson Quotes About Education

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country. — Benjamin Carson

My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion. — Benjamin Carson

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard. — Benjamin Carson

Education does not necessarily make one wise? — Benjamin Carson

Benjamin Carson Quotes About God

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

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity. — Benjamin Carson

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you." — Benjamin Carson

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done. — 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. — Benjamin Carson

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you? — Benjamin Carson

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do. — Benjamin Carson

What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. — Benjamin Carson

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there. — Benjamin Carson

I think God's a pretty fair guy. — Benjamin Carson

Benjamin Carson Quotes About Reading

I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare. — Benjamin Carson

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Benjamin Carson

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension. — Benjamin Carson

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14. — Benjamin Carson

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world. — Benjamin Carson

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read. — Benjamin Carson

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

Benjamin Carson Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

Under Islamic Law, homosexuals - men and women alike - must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced...I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President. — Benjamin Carson

And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe. — Benjamin Carson

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain. — Benjamin Carson

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

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

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. You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are. — Benjamin Carson

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

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

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up. — Benjamin Carson

I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening. — Benjamin Carson

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated. — Benjamin Carson

She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish. — Benjamin Carson

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well. — Benjamin Carson

Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes. — Benjamin Carson

[Donald Trump] is talked about enormous loss that we've had in this country by allowing radical Islamic extremists to run rampant without having a coherent plan for how to destroy them, not just to contain them, but to destroy them. And the implications of that for all families who are losing service members is significant. — Benjamin Carson

Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America. — Benjamin Carson

If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire. — Benjamin Carson

You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me. — Benjamin Carson

What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us". — Benjamin Carson

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany. — Benjamin Carson

If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them. — Benjamin Carson

There are two different Donald Trump's. There's the one you see on the stage and there is the one who is very cerebral. He sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that's the Donald Trump that you'll going to start seeing more and more of. — Benjamin Carson

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

Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is, I've been in lots of place growing up and listening to people tell great tales of sexual conquest. It is an immature thing to do - — Benjamin Carson

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times. — Benjamin Carson

Our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons. — Benjamin Carson

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments. — Benjamin Carson

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

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door. — Benjamin Carson

Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life. — Benjamin Carson

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. — Benjamin Carson

You have yourself to blame. — Benjamin Carson

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine. — Benjamin Carson

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior. — Benjamin Carson

You have to try, you have to try everything you can. — Benjamin Carson

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die. — Benjamin Carson

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you. — Benjamin Carson

America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it. — Benjamin Carson

I just hated poverty. — Benjamin Carson

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help. — Benjamin Carson

I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category. — Benjamin Carson

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity. — Benjamin Carson

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment. — Benjamin Carson

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it. — Benjamin Carson

We have much better policies than the Democrats do. — Benjamin Carson

When you look at the way the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they would have to be that way for a reason. And, you know, various scientists have said, well, you know, there were alien beings that came down, and they had special knowledge, and that's how they were - you know, it doesn't require an alien being when God is with you. — Benjamin Carson

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing. — Benjamin Carson

Why should I give someone else such power over my life? — Benjamin Carson

Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable. — Benjamin Carson

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard. — Benjamin Carson

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see. — Benjamin Carson

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. — Benjamin Carson

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world. — Benjamin Carson

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. — Benjamin Carson

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world. — Benjamin Carson

In our culture, security has become an obsession. — Benjamin Carson

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it. — Benjamin Carson

I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me. — Benjamin Carson

Maybe that's the problem. But whether they've heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff, I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that. — Benjamin Carson

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues. — Benjamin Carson

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done. — Benjamin Carson

Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things. — Benjamin Carson

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems. — Benjamin Carson

I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best. — Benjamin Carson

Life Lessons by Benjamin Carson

1. Dr. Benjamin Carson's work is a testament to the power of hard work, dedication, and resilience. He overcame poverty and a difficult childhood to become one of the world's most renowned neurosurgeons.
2. His story is an inspiration to anyone who has ever faced adversity, showing that with enough dedication and determination, anything is possible.
3. His example also highlights the importance of education and the value of giving back to your community, as he has done throughout his career.