Ben Carson Quotes

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Reading equals hope times change.

People believe in the power of education to change lives.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

We want to change lives.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever situation it is, just grow from it, learn from it, don't let it happen again.

The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.