Top 100 Best Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best best quotes ever written, picked out of the full best archive on QuoteForever. You will find Marlee Matlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Kiyosaki and Fred Rogers among them.

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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

3

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

4

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

6

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

7

I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.

8

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

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My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

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With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

14

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

15

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

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If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.

18

The worst men often give the best advice.

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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

20

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

21

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

22

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

23

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

24

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

25

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

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Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

27

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

30

I did my best, and God did the rest.

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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

32

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

33

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

34

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

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The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

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The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

38

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

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The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

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Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

42

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

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Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

46

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

47

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

48

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

51

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

52

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

54

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

55

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

56

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

57

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

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I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

59

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

60

The best prophet of the future is the past.

61

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

62

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

64

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

65

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

66

The best vision is insight.

67

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

68

We have the best government that money can buy.

69

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

70

Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.

71

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

72

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

73

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

74

Technology is best when it brings people together.

75

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

76

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

77

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

78

Life is best when you are in love.

79

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

80

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

81

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

82

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

83

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

84

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

85

The best love affairs are those we never had.

86

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

87

Time is generally the best doctor.

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

89

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

90

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

91

Our best thoughts come from others.

92

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

93

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

94

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

95

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

96

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

97

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

98

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

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I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

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In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

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