Ben Carson Quotes

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

In college, you become truly independent; your discipline is honed. It has to be there for your studies. It helped make me who I am, and it increased my determination to be the best I could be.

I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. 'Educated' is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family.

My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.