I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work. Benjamin Carson More Quotes by Benjamin Carson More Quotes From Benjamin Carson Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about. Benjamin Carson effort risk should 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 environment persons life-is I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7. Benjamin Carson growing-up father kids 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 hard-work sight opportunity I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life? Benjamin Carson realizing giving people I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. Benjamin Carson stupid believe people When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives. Benjamin Carson behinds goes-on mistake 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 skeletons dark night Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base. Benjamin Carson errors mistake people 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 pyramids order thinking 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 learning helping-others knowledge But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie. Benjamin Carson daughter government lying Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things. Benjamin Carson brain way thinking I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist. Benjamin Carson detroit evil-people racist We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord. Benjamin Carson safe jesus christ 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 our-world differences order I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you. Benjamin Carson accomplishment reading people Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Benjamin Carson freedom-of-speech speech war 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 smarter knows thinking If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair? Benjamin Carson proportionality unfair thinking
