"You must take the first step. The first……" — Ben Stein
"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."
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102 Quotes by Ben Stein
Ben Stein has 102 quotes on this site.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up…
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I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is…
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove…
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for…
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I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly…
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to…
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it…
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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It's a lot better to hope than not to.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the…
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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More Effort Quotes
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure…
— Julian Assange
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can…
— Julian Assange
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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