957 private quotes tagged best

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.” — Niels Bohr

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

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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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“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” — George Eliot

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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