957 private quotes tagged best

“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

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“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” — William Butler Yeats

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“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

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

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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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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” — Franklin P. Adams

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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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“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.” — Anatole France

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“Woman's at best a contradiction still.” — Alexander Pope

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“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

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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.” — Alexander Pope

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“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.” — Aristotle

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” — Pablo Picasso

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“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.” — Samuel Butler

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“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.” — William Butler Yeats

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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” — George Eliot

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“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.” — Ronald Reagan

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“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

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“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.” — William Butler Yeats

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” — George Eliot

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