Quotes from 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.

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

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

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.

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.

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

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.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

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

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

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

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.

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.