Benjamin Jeremy “Ben” Stein (b.1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Hope
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
—Ben Stein
Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Responsibility
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Goals, Perseverance
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Action, Stars
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Attitude, Belief
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Failure
No one will do it for you.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Action
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Reality
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Happiness, Achieving, Joy, Spirit
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Life, Cooperation, Help, Achieve, Persona, Success, Achievement
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Dreams, Self-Discovery, Life, Strength, Living Well, Decide, Goals, Decisions, Goal
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
—Ben Stein
Topics: Planning
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