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Quotes by 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.
  • The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.
  • The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
  • You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
  • There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....
  • 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.