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Ben Stein Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Ben Stein Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

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

Related topics: Values Purpose

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition
for building up a sound education.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine

The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates

It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill

The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli

Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie