Best Quotes

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"

"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."

"Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last."

"We have the best government that money can buy."

"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

"I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me."

"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

"A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment."

"When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors."

"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."

"The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

"I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name."

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."

"Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism."

"There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best."

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."

"The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are."

"The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds."

"I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be."

"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one."

"The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!"

"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."

"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."

"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

"The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist."

"I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human."

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

"The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense."

"Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared."

"I would say that Breaking2 was my best race because I was running against something no one had done before."

"The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone."

"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."