Ben Carson Quotes

What you risk reveals what you value.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you're able to make better decisions.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.