Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 18)

"The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson"

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best"

"We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"The evil that we know is best"

Plautus, Playwright

"Goodness is beauty in the best estate"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother"

Plautus, Playwright

"Keep what you have; the known evil is best"

Plautus, Playwright

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world"

Charles Eames, Designer

"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Testing oneself is best when done alone"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Live always in the best company when you read"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"The best prophet of the future is the past"

George Byron, Poet

"A contented mind is the best source for trouble"

Plautus, Playwright

"I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number"

William Dean Howells, Author

"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint"

Will Arnett, Actor

"This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on"

Will Arnett, Actor

"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show"

Will Arnett, Actor

"We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

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