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I hope you find these Ben Stein Quotes inspiring and motivational.
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
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
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
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
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Do what you love and the money will follow.
- Marsha Sinetar
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
- Harvey McKay
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Trust in what you love, continue to do it,
and it will take you where you need to go.
- Natalie Goldberg
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
- Ovid
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love,
selflessness, and kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love yourself as you truly are -
and live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
You can live the life you love -
even in the face of the most challenging circumstances.
While sometimes it may appear that life throws more obstacles
in your path than you can handle,
you can always choose to be happy.
Yes, you are that powerful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
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