Barbara Walters quotes

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
- Barbara Walters

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.
- Barbara Walters

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.
- Barbara Walters

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.
- Barbara Walters

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
- Barbara Walters

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.
- Barbara Walters

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.
- Barbara Walters

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.
- Barbara Walters

Don't let the bastards get you down.
- Barbara Walters

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

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.
- Barbara Walters

A conversation isn't a competition.
- Barbara Walters

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.
- Barbara Walters

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

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

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

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.
- Barbara Walters

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

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.
- Barbara Walters

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
- Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
- Barbara Walters

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