Best Quotes

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

"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 bold adventurer succeeds the best"

Ovid, Poet

"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

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

Jane Austen, Writer

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"

Helen Keller, Author

"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

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek"

Vanna White, Celebrity

"I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements"

George P. Baker

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"

Chaim Potok, Author

"The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"God deserves the best from us"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Trees are your best antiques"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game"

Paul Pierce, Athlete

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

"I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best"

St. Jerome, Saint

"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

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