Ben Stein Quotes

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Life, Getting, Step

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
Ben Stein

Funny, Good, Experience

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

Life, Human, Spirit

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Ben Stein

Time, Remember, Keep

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
Ben Stein

Money, Best, Successful

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Ben Stein

Faith, God, Knowing

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

Pain, Everything, Done

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
Ben Stein

Work, Finance, Fight

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Ben Stein

Age, God, Amazing

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
Ben Stein

Life, Old, Tell

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

Happy, Human, Spirit

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
Ben Stein

Society, Try, Same

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
Ben Stein

Sad, Smart, Sleep

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Ben Stein

Forget, Done, Law

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Ben Stein

Amazing, Ordinary, Notions

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Ben Stein

Stars, Face, Fall

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

Life, Success, Real

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
Ben Stein

Win, Cannot, Action

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
Ben Stein

Human, America, Vote

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
Ben Stein

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
Ben Stein

American, Far, Realize

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

Nothing, Understand, Once

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

Life, Successful, Deal

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
Ben Stein

Black, Through, Why

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
Ben Stein

Everything, Succeed, Plans

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 25, 1944

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