957 private quotes tagged best

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” — Francis Bacon

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“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.” — Michael Jordan

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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” — Socrates

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“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” — Henry Ford

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“I have found 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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“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” — Ronald Reagan

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“One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.” — Josh Billings

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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

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“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.” — William Feather

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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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“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.” — Aeschylus

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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.” — Will Rogers

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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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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” — William Feather

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Toleration is the best religion.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.” — Mark Twain

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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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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

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