957 private quotes tagged best

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” — Albert Camus

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“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” — Steve Jobs

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“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” — Aristotle

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“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” — Lee Iacocca

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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

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“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.” — Lao Tzu

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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” — Ayn Rand

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“That government is best which governs least.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” — Napoleon Hill

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“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“The best is the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire

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“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.” — Steve Jobs

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“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.” — John Wooden

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“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.” — Walt Whitman

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

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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs

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“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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