Quotes from 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.

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.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

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.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Stop thinking of failing.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

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