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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Ruben Blades

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Marilu Henner

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

Ivana Trump

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Benjamin Spock

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Paul Walker

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Nick Cave

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

Fred Rogers

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Tiger Woods

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

George Bernard Shaw

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Anne Lamott

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Blaine Lee

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Thomas Tusser

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

St. Jerome

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Martha Smith

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Paula Abdul

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Morihei Ueshiba

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Dave Pelzer

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Norman Ralph Augustine

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Chester W. Nimitz

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

Dwyane Wade

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

Cher Lloyd

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

Dudley Moore

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Richard Bach

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Robert A. Heinlein

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Tim Allen

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Frank A. Clark

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Al Lopez

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

Terri Clark

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

Carnie Wilson

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John F. Kennedy

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

William Osler

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

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

Fred Durst

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

David Ogilvy

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

John C. Maxwell

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Art Buchwald

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Ivan Chermayeff

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

James Cash Penney

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Eddie Vedder

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Just do what you do best.

Red Auerbach

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Hattie McDaniel

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Thomas Sowell

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

George MacDonald

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Carl Jung

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Sophia Bush

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

Hannah Arendt

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Marcus Aurelius

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Christopher Walken

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Will Rogers

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Forbes

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert