“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
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.
“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.”
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“I'm married to my best friend!”
“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”
“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.”
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”