Best Quotes

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung

Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine

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 revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
Eddie Vedder

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.
John C. Maxwell

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

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning

If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

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

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
William Osler

The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Joe DiMaggio

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt

I did my best, and God did the rest.
Hattie McDaniel

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
Christopher Walken

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas Sowell

Old friends are best.
John Selden

That’s your best friend and your worst enemy – your own brain.
Fred Durst

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

Look your best – who said love is blind?
Mae West

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
John F. Kennedy

Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
Eric Butterworth

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
Marlee Matlin

When things are bad, it’s the best time to reinvent yourself.
George Lopez

The days you work are the best days.
Georgia O’Keeffe

The best things in life are silly.
Scott Adams

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.
David Icke

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
Luc de Clapiers

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Katharine Whitehorn

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson

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

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare

You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de Gaulle

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Friedrich Schiller

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.
Thornton Wilder

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

The best person to get something done is a busy person.
Mark Burnett

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

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Gerald Jampolsky

Usually, the stuff that’s your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.
Francis Ford Coppola

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
Marilyn Monroe

Life is best when you are in love.
Michael Moriarty

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

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

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

That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
Will Rogers

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 way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae West

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter

The man who has done his best has done everything.
Charles M. Schwab

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Pat Riley

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings

I am the best in baseball.
Reggie Jackson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson

The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

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

Everybody’s got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
Marlee Matlin

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert Kiyosaki

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
John Wooden

Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best mirror is an old friend.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Charles Caleb Colton

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

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

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

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

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
Cristiano Ronaldo

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

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It’s about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others’ success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Chris Hadfield

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

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
Gretchen Rubin

Some things are best left to memories.
Bez

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.
Lana

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.
Lindsey Shaw

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon Musk

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach

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

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers

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

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.
Don Miguel Ruiz

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Robert Baden-Powell

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli

My life motto is ‘Do my best, so that I can’t blame myself for anything.’
Magdalena Neuner

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx