Ben Carson Quotes

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself.

If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.