Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 2)

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation"

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"

Willa Cather, Author

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"Music is the best way for me to say I love you"

Mireille Mathieu, Musician

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument"

Voltaire, Writer

"In art the best is good enough"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it"

Mark Twain, Author

"We have the best government that money can buy"

Mark Twain, Author

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Practice is the best of all instructors"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Living well is the best revenge"

George Herbert, Poet

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later"

Og Mandino, Author

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The bold adventurer succeeds the best"

Ovid, Poet

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best"

Jane Austen, Writer

"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally"

Thomas Mann, Writer

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