Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden
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
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. e. e. cummings
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The best road to progress is freedom’s road. John F. Kennedy
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best. John C. Maxwell
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. Lee Iacocca
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra
The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman
It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there. Robert Kiyosaki
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. Max Beerbohm
Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert
If a man does his best, what else is there? George S. Patton
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Thomas Carlyle
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Ambrose Bierce
The worst men often give the best advice. Francis Bacon
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
The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much. Thornton Wilder
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
The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. Eli Khamarov
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s. Lyndon B. Johnson
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. Sophocles
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Jonathan Swift
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. Art Buchwald
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. Friedrich Schiller
You’ll live. Only the best get killed. Charles de Gaulle
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. Hannah Arendt
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. Frank Crane
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Doris Lessing
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. George Halas
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world. Aung San Suu Kyi
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. David Seabury
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. Horatio Nelson
The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls. Gerald Jampolsky
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration. Robert Bresson
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Just do what you do best. Red Auerbach
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Jim Elliot
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. Moliere
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln
Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama
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
You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. Keith Sweat
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. Henry Ford
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ Tupac Shakur
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
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
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Benjamin Disraeli
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Socrates
The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Abraham Lincoln
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle
I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Abraham Lincoln
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first. Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy. Benjamin Franklin
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
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx
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
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk. Dalai Lama
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
We have the best government that money can buy. Mark Twain
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. Abraham Lincoln
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. Mark Twain
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. Anne Frank
It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain
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
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. Mark Twain
He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Winston Churchill
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. Thomas Jefferson
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. George S. Patton
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. Audrey Hepburn
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller
The best smell in the world is that man that you love. Jennifer Aniston
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best. Margaret Thatcher
But men are men the best sometimes forget. William Shakespeare
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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. Pat Riley
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands. Mahatma Gandhi
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. Eleanor Roosevelt
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
“Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.;William Shakespeare;best
6245;If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.;George Bernard Shaw;best
6246;Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.;Eleanor Roosevelt;best
6247;Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.;Friedrich Nietzsche;best
6248;When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.” Lao Tzu
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe
Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you. Joel Osteen
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love. Eminem
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. E. O. Wilson
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. John F. Kennedy
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
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
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Hunger is the best pickle. Benjamin Franklin
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Aristotle
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. John F. Kennedy
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. Charles Kingsley
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon
Fatigue is the best pillow. Benjamin Franklin
That government is best which governs least. Henry David Thoreau
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. Abdul Kalam
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine
“Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.;Alice Walker;best
6271;Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.;John Wooden;best
6272;The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;best
6273;Our best thoughts come from others.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;best
6274;It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.;Aristotle;best
6275;The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.;Aristotle;best
6276;The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;best
6277;Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.;Steve Jobs;best
6278;The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.;Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;best
6279;I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning and that’s the best they’re going to feel all day.;Dean Martin;best
6280;Education is the best provision for old age.;Aristotle;best
6281;The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.;W. C. Fields;best
6282;The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.;Plato;best
6283;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;best
6284;To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.;Lao Tzu;best
6285;We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.;Barack Obama;best
6286;But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.;William Julius Wilson;best
6287;There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.;Henry Ford;best
6288;The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.;Elbert Hubbard;best
6289;The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.;Michael Jordan;best
6290;I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.;Michael Jordan;best
6291;Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.;Francis Bacon;best
6292;The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.;Ayn Rand;best
6293;One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.;Marilyn Monroe;best
6294;A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.;Marilyn Monroe;best
6295;I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‘Hi,’ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.;Marilyn Monroe;best
6296;I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.;Marilyn Monroe;best
6297;Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.;Grenville Kleiser;best
6298;He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.;Friedrich Nietzsche;best
6299;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;best
6300;But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.;Barack Obama;best
6301;You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.;Eminem;best
6302;My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.;Carnie Wilson;best
6303;In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.;Friedrich Nietzsche;best
6304;The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.;Friedrich Nietzsche;best
6305;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;best
6306;Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.;Theodore Isaac Rubin;best
6307;Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.;Henry David Thoreau;best
6308;Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.;Eminem;best
6309;The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.;Theodore Roosevelt;best
6310;As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.;Oprah Winfrey;best
6311;The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.;George Bernard Shaw;best
6312;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;best
6313;So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.;Haniel Long;best
6314;I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.;Zig Ziglar;best
6315;I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.;Henry David Thoreau;best
6316;I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.;George Bernard Shaw;best
6317;The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.;Henry David Thoreau;best
6318;Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.;Phyllis Diller;best
6319;It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.;Henry David Thoreau;best
6320;I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.;Steve Jobs;best
6321;Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.;Henry David Thoreau;best
6322;One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.;Joseph Campbell;best
6323;The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?” Will Rogers
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. Ron Paul
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
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. Donald Trump
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can. Lil Wayne
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
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious. Will Rogers
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Gilda Radner
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you. Will Rogers
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie
The best way to hold a man is in your arms. Mae West
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. Theodore Roosevelt
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. Steve Jobs
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. Bill Cosby
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. B. F. Skinner
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. Dave Pelzer
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. Steve Jobs
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. Barack Obama
So let’s not use a stylus. We’re going to use the best pointing device in the world. We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with – born with ten of them. We’re going to use our fingers. We’re going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. Steve Jobs
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. Steve Jobs
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom. Tim Allen
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. Ralph Marston
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. H. L. Mencken
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. Russell Baker
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. Barack Obama
Look your best – who said love is blind? Mae West
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Napoleon Hill
I just think it is important that you realize , that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. Clint Eastwood
The best way out of a difficulty is through it. Will Rogers
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again. Barack Obama
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. John Wooden
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. Oprah Winfrey
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
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. Sun Tzu
Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Aldous Huxley
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. Robert A. Heinlein
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemingway
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. Voltaire
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. Voltaire
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served. Napoleon Hill
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life. Oprah Winfrey
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. Dale Carnegie
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Napoleon Hill
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you. Rita Mae Brown
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway
The best is the enemy of the good. Voltaire
Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. Marilyn Manson
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. Arnold Schwarzenegger
In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. Lucy Maud Montgomery
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. Napoleon Hill
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords. T. S. Eliot
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. Voltaire
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. Kin Hubbard
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. Lou Holtz
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. Samuel Adams
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. John Wooden
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. Joel Osteen
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible. Ray Bradbury
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. Mitt Romney
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut
Luck marches with those who give their very best. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake. John Frusciante
In art the best is good enough. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Napoleon Bonaparte
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Dale Carnegie
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. Konrad von Gesner
You teach best what you most need to learn. Richard Bach
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. Marcus Aurelius
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. Orison Swett Marden
I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it. Mike Tyson
No one can really honestly be the very best, no one. John Wooden
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor
You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk. Rosalynn Carter
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best. Clint Eastwood
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations. Anthony Hitt
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart. Dan Gable
There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can. Clint Eastwood
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. Kenny Guinn
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. Robert E. Lee
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. Hillary Clinton
If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. Mitt Romney
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. Thomas A. Edison
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. William James
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. James Madison
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. Mitt Romney
I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become. Mitt Romney
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small. Mitt Romney
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. Vladimir Lenin
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth
The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught. Luc de Clapiers
Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls. Kid Rock
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Miguel Angel Ruiz
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone. Faith Hill
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. Henry Ward Beecher
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. Henry Ward Beecher
The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous. David Icke
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the