Best Quotes

"He who knows himself best esteems himself least"

H. G. Bohn

"We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man"

Richard Whately, Writer

"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is"

Donald G. Mitchell

"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'"

Terry Prachett, Author

"I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it"

Corbin Bleu, Actor

"Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future"

Guy Finley, Writer

"Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'"

Brad Thor, Novelist

"The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans"

Neal Schon, Musician

"I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing"

Jean Stafford, Writer

"I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs"

Neal Schon, Musician

"The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon"

William Feather, Author

"A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds"

David Horowitz, Writer

"I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953"

Leon Uris, Writer

"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance"

Jon Favreau, Actor

"We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children"

Rob Reiner, Director

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret"

Ben Okri, Poet

"I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC"

Ashleigh Banfield, Journalist

"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate"

William Shenstone, Poet

"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition"

William Osler, Scientist

"If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

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