Ben Carson Quotes

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

Individual liberty is individual power.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

I wasn't going to let anything control me.

The important thing to remember is you control you. Nothing else can control you.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.