Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 3)

"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

"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

"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

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account"

Euripides, Poet

"Living well is the best revenge"

George Herbert, Poet

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions"

Lord Byron, Poet

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"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

"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"You'll live. Only the best get killed"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them"

Olin Miller, Writer

"The bold adventurer succeeds the best"

Ovid, Poet

"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

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

Og Mandino, Author

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"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

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Jane Austen, Writer

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"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

"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best"

Tony Dungy, Coach

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