Best Quotes

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

"Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good."

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

"Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone."

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."

"I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love."

"It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do."

"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."

"I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can."

"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

"I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids."

"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me."

"Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best."

"I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it."

"Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

"The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue."

"I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective."

"You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person."

"I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened."

"Silence is true wisdom's best reply."

"Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion."

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

"I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory."

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."

"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."

"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."

"Difficult times often bring out the best in people."

"Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies."

"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"

"I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel themselves in it."

"If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference."

"At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker."

"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."

"My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life."

"Redemption and rehabilitation for formerly incarcerated individuals is best achieved when they are able to reintegrate back into the community as productive members."

"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one."

"I can only do my thing and do the best that I can."

"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

"We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future."

"The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves."

"Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again."

"Certainly we have made mistakes, but you try and learn from your mistakes. And the most important thing is always to move forward and, I think, empower people to do their best, and to lead. I think people respect that and work better under those circumstances."