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“No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?”
― Ben Carson

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.”
― Ben Carson

“Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Reading activates and exercises the mind.
Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts.
Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“First, we cannot overload the human brain. This divinely created brain has fourteen billion cells. If used to the maximum, this human computer inside our heads could contain all the knowledge of humanity from the beginning of the world to the present and still have room left over. Second, not only can we not overload our brain - we also know that our brain retains everything. I often use saying that "The brain acquires everything that we encounter." The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but getting it out. Sometimes we "file" information randomly of little importance, and it confuses us.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence