Best Quotes

"Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate"

John Lyly, Writer

"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime"

George Borrow, Author

"Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best"

Edward Abbey, Author

"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem"

Edward Abbey, Author

"I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"I have to live with both my selves as best I may"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"The man who has done his best has done everything"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends"

Chanakya, Politician

"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"Modesty is my best quality"

Jack Benny, Comedian

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it"

Harry S. Truman, President

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth"

Chanakya, Politician

"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"

John Wooden, Coach

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming"

John Wooden, Coach

"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"The team with the best players wins"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming"

John Wooden, Coach

"Walking is man's best medicine"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible"

Harry S. Truman, President

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it"

Harry S. Truman, President

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

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