Ben Carson Quotes

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

I’ve often been told that I’m a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. I feel like I’m extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that’s a bit out of proportion. I guess that’s why some people see me as strange.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

It's often only other people who notice you have a signature style. I don't think I've got one, though other people tell me I do.