957 private quotes tagged best

“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

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“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

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.” — William Feather

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“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

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“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

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“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“A majority is always better than the best repartee.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.” — Josh Billings

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“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

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“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

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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.” — Will Rogers

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“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.” — Aeschylus

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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Toleration is the best religion.” — Victor Hugo

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“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.” — Heraclitus

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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” — William Feather

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“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.” — Mark Twain

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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” — Mark Twain

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“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

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“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

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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.” — W. Edwards Deming

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