Our Best Quotes

#1. As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves

Steve Martin

#2. You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

Rafael Benitez

#3. Milagra led Riona further into the room and away from me, directing the Queen's attention elsewhere. I let her. Slicing the fae queen open probably wasn't in our best interests at the moment. I could be diplomatic too.

Suzanne M. Sabol

#4. The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

Tim Crouch

#6. Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#7. Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

Daphne Oz

#8. Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want

M.J. Ryan

#9. If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Akio Morita

#10. I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

John Motson

#11. Was that amazing?" she demanded.
"That was amazing," I agreed. It's hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you're both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.

Rick Riordan

#12. By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Robyn Davidson

#13. You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

Matt Chandler

#14. Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#15. Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. For we die every day; oblivion thrives 520 Not on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives, And our best yesterdays are now foul piles Of crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

James Hollis

#18. Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to "something unknown is doing we don't know what".

John Gribbin

#19. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.

Lilias Trotter

#20. We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

Jonathan Balcombe

#21. A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Caroline Leavitt

#22. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

Lauren DeStefano

#23. Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.

Dacher Keltner

#24. The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

David J. Lieberman

#25. It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

#26. I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

Shirley Maclaine

#27. Some of our best and most productive moments arise from a period when we are silent and reflective.

Lozetta Hayden

#28. His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

Ken Bates

#30. We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

Victoria Osteen

#31. And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.

Andre Agassi

#32. For life, nature is our best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#34. Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#35. I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

Michael Hyatt

#36. We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#37. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Tim Hansel

#38. If the future of humanity truly depends on our children ... then let's do our best to protect and better our future each and everyday.

Timothy Pina

#39. Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

Hillary Clinton

#40. In this world, we are not perfect. We can only do our best." - Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

Laurie Ann Thompson

#41. In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Van Day Truex

#42. What we really need is only a heart of surrender & always trust what God has plan for our life. So we do our best, God shall take the rest. That's what I called FAITH.

Olivia Sinaga

#43. The conservatives could sneer about "social engineering" if they wanted, but I thought that most people believed as I did that government should embody our best hopes and lend a hand to people who were struggling.

Joe Biden

#44. We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.
In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Yukio Mishima

#45. We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

Gavin MacLeod

#46. The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#47. The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

Craig Venter

#48. It might not work for everyone. But for us, we're at our best when our clothes are off.

Amelia LeFay

#49. Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy.

Debasish Mridha

#50. We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

Iain Duncan Smith

#51. If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

Simon Blackburn

#52. I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.

Larry McMurtry

#53. Well, this I know: our best years are when we're working hardest and going right ahead when we can hardly see our way out.

Willa Cather

#54. Last night was one of the best nights of my life."

"Sleeping in between the toilet an the tub on a cold, hard tile floor with a vomiting idiot was one of our best nights? That's sad, Trav.

Jamie McGuire

#55. The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

#56. In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

Michel Patini

#57. " ... All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#58. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

John C. Danforth

#59. Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#60. The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.

Cory Booker

#61. It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

Theodor Billroth

#62. Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when we give our best as per our unique talent, gifting, strengths while willing to team up with others in the areas of our limitations...

Assegid Habtewold

#63. Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Allen Klein

#64. We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Matthieu Ricard

#65. If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#66. Life is limited so people will appreciate it because there's a limit, we would try our best to live.

Gosho Aoyama

#67. To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.

R. Kelly

#68. the title of our book lightly, either. Let Go To Grow is all about our vision of the future of business, its implications, and our best practices. It's about the future of your business too. We begin the book with some sobering marketplace realities and offer a set of management principles

Linda S. Sanford

#69. There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Orison Swett Marden

#70. Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

Camille Paglia

#71. God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

Robert Collyer

#72. If we do our best, God will do the rest.

Joyce Meyer

#73. With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self - our own unique noble purpose.

Tom Hayes

#74. We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

Amy Dickinson

#75. There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

Kourtney Kardashian

#76. We don't have to be superstars or win championships ... . All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

John Wooden

#77. The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us
just as we are.

Chieko N. Okazaki

#78. We wanted to enjoy the afterglow and we were trying our best to bond, but it was difficult with so many people between us, even though most of them were ghosts.

Jennifer Echols

#79. The only moment that we can actually experience is the present moment, and this seems to be the one that we often do our best to avoid, usually through thoughts and emotions. As

Frank Lin

#80. We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.

Watchman Nee

#81. We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

Harold S. Kushner

#82. Butch is our best equestrian,' Annabeth said. 'He gets along great with the pegasi.' 'Rainbows, ponies,' Leo muttered.

Rick Riordan

#83. Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.

Fennel Hudson

#84. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Seth Godin

#85. These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they?"

Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

David Eddings

#86. Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11

Richard J. Foster

#87. There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Hillary Clinton

#88. We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

Samantha Power

#89. I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

Christina Baker Kline

#90. We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

Winston Churchill

#91. Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough ... We have to do what is required.

Winston Churchill

#92. We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

Vera Farmiga

#93. Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Michael Drayton

#94. To be monitoring anything we fucking say. If you wanted to discuss menstruation at great length and detail, this is probably our best chance. He's always been squeamish about women, and no one likes a Peeping Tom, even if he is prime minister.

James S.A. Corey

#95. The Klingons are not calling to the warriors within us to seek out death. They are calling us to live every moment of every day as our best selves, so that should death arrive unbidden, we may face it without regret.

Kirsten Beyer

#96. Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.

Alex Bledsoe

#97. You're our best hope."
"If you call me Obi-Wan I'm going to kick you."
He grinned. "Hot. say Obi-Wan again."
I laughed, shoving his shoulder. "Shut up.

Alyxandra Harvey

#98. Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat
planet Earth
could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama
soap opera with literary trimmings.

Edward Abbey

#99. We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

Glen Taylor

#100. The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

Winston Churchill