Best Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am 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

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
― Sarah Kay

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”
― Ben Carson

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”
― Randy Pausch

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Experience is the best teacher.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.

[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide

“I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. ”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“The best listeners listen between the lines.”
― Nina Malkin, Swoon

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
― Arthur Miller

“The best is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“The best traveler is one without a camera.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.”
― Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

“Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.

Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!

Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!

Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!

Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”
― Alan Sheinwald, Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home

“I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.”
― Fanny Brice

“SOMETIMES WE MAY NEED TO LOSE A BATTLE,
TO LEARN THE BEST WAYS TO WIN THE WAR.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War