Barbara Walters Quotes

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

A conversation isn't a competition.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.