“If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.”
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“No man fails who does his best.”
“The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.”
“Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.”
“Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.”
“Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
“The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.”
“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”
“The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.”
“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.”
“I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.”
“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.”
“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”
“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.”
“You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.”
“Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.”
“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
“If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.”
“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”
“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.”
“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”