Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 2)

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

David Ogilvy, Businessman

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

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"The best view comes after the hardest climb"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

"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

"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

"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

"The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"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

"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

"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

"Living well is the best revenge"

George Herbert, Poet

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"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

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

Og Mandino, Author

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"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 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 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

"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