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“I did my best, and God did the rest.”
“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.”
“The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.”
“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.”
“Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.”
“I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.”
“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”
“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”
“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”
“I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.”
“I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.”
“This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.”
“You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.”
“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.”
“The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.”
“I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.”
“I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.”
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
“There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.”
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.”
“That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.”