Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Best

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader (b.1934) American Lawyer, Consumer Activist

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Swedish Proverb

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be “realistic”. Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things because the odds against success stymie them. The best performers ignore the odds. I will show you that instead of limiting themselves to what’s probable, the best will pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams—so long as catching them might be possible.
John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

In everything the middle course is best:
all things in excess bring trouble to men.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
Irish Proverb

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.
Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist

Do what you know best; if you’re a runner, run, if you’re a bell, ring.
Ignaz Bernstein (1836–1909) Russian-Jewish Bibliophile

All is for the best in the best of the possible worlds.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer

All I want of the world is very little. I only want the best of everything, and there is so little of that.
Michael Arlen (1895–1956) British Novelist, Short Story Writer

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something…almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American Entrepreneur, Businessperson

To excel means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.
Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good”.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist

I saw that we’re all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

The best players in any high-stakes field – business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport – recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.
John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader

When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your highest vision change to a new thought! Then and there. When you say a thing that is our of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can.
Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author

The best is good enough.
German Proverb

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

It’s rest I want—there, I have said it out—
From cooking meals for hungry hired men
And washing dishes after them—from doing
Things over and over that just won’t stay done.
By good rights I ought not to have so much
Put on me, but there seems no other way.
Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.
He says the best way out is always through.
And I agree to that, or in so far
As that I can see no way out but through—
Leastways for me—and then they’ll be convinced.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

The best horse doesn’t always win the race.
Irish Proverb

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.
Erich Fromm (1900–80) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher

Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that’s how they got to the top.
John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

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