Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 15)

"I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil"

Sting, Musician

"When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around"

Sting, Musician

"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"

David Hume, Philosopher

"The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"I don't need to beat them. I need to beat the best version of them"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

"In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life"

Peter Tosh, Musician

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

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee"

Tacitus, Historian

"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop"

Tacitus, Historian

"No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests"

Sallust, Historian

"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"An incinerator is a writer's best friend"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served"

Napoleon Hill, Writer