Best Quotes to Inspire and Motivate (Page 9)

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best"

"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator"

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"He who knows best knows how little he knows"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself"

Plato, Philosopher

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"A majority is always better than the best repartee"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"A boy's story is the best that is ever told"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"

Robert Frost, Poet

"You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best"

Miles Davis, Musician

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out"

Ronald Reagan, President

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice"

Ronald Reagan, President

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