Best Quotes

What does it mean to be the best? These quotes tackle excellence, personal bests, peak performance, and the drive to push past good enough. Some are about competition, others about the quieter pursuit of doing your finest work when nobody is watching.

“The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.”

Edward Norton

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“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

Earl Nightingale

“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”

Niels Bohr

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

Buddha

“Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.”

John Wooden

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

Robert Frost

“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.”

Heidi Klum

“Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.”

Chris Brown

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

George Orwell

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”

Andy Warhol

“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.”

Orison Swett Marden

“My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.”

Joan Rivers

“Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.”

Hugh Jackman

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”

Henry Ford

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