Quotes by Stein, Ben




Ben Stein speaks to a crowd at UC Santa Barbara.

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Stein, Ben on decisions
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"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."

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"There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals."

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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on happiness
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"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."

Stein, Ben on inertia
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"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done."

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"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

Stein, Ben on reality
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"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."

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"You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot"

Stein, Ben on belief
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"No one will do it for you."

Stein, Ben on action
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"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

Stein, Ben on cooperation
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