Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 2)

"The waste basket is the writer's best friend"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

"That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted"

Lou Costello, Comedian

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be"

Robert Browning, Poet

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

Cary Grant, Actor

"Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best"

Mary Webb, Novelist

"The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can"

John T. Walton, Businessman

"The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Practice is the best of all instructors"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Education is the best provision for old age"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"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

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

W. H. Auden, Poet

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

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts"

James Joyce, Novelist

"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

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

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Home is the place we love best and grumble the most"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"He who laughs most, learns best"

John Cleese, Actor

"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"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

"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes"

Anthony Trollope, Author

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

Mireille Mathieu, Musician

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"The best substitute for experience is being sixteen"

Raymond Duncan

"In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last"

John Romero, Inventor

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

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against"

Bill Walton, Athlete

"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

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