“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
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.
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”
“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”
“The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.”
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”
“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.”
“You'll live. Only the best get killed.”
“You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.”
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”