Ben Stein Quotes

You will never win if you never begin.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

It is better to start doing what one has to late than not at all.

The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.

If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.