Quotes About What's Best

#1. Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.

Gitty Daneshvari

#2. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Amy Chua

#3. A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

Cornel West

#4. The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

Tammy Bruce

#5. It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.

Orson Scott Card

#6. I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Claudette Colbert

#7. We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#8. I never wanted anyone else, T.J. I just wanted what was best for you."
"You are what's best for me," he said, cradling my head in his arms, his legs intertwined with mine. "I'm not going anywhere, Anna. This is right where I want to be.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#9. With every moment of heart ache,
I get a little closer to 'Acceptance' somehow,
Denying to expect what's best,
But to approve it's the best for now!

Somya Kedia

#10. In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

Veronica Roth

#11. Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what's best for the project.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#12. As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

Doc Rivers

#13. Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Joshua Harris

#14. God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

Sue Grafton

#15. I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

Dathan Ritzenhein

#16. People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

Eric Allman

#17. I believe that appreciation is a holy thing
that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

Fred Rogers

#18. No one enters politics to serve their community. They do it to feed their own rampant egos. Self-interest remains the number one priority. A politician's sole objective is to win office, and everything else, including what's best for the country and its citizens, comes a distant second. Marlowe's

Nathan Allen

#19. A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Kenneth Adelman

#20. Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.

Kirsten Miller

#21. Contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, God, I believe you love me and know what's best for me.

Rick Warren

#22. Show your children God's love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don't hold a grudge, look for what's best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.

Genny Monchamp

#23. The Heart always wins out over the mind, The heart, although reckless and suicidal and masochist all on its own, always gets it way. The mind may be what's best, but I don't give a shit what my mind is telling me anymore. Right now, I want to live in the moment.

J.A. Redmerski

#24. Hot or not, there went my tenuous grip on my temper. 'I don't need you looking out for what's best for me, Aiden. I'm not a child!'
His eyes narrowed. 'I of all people know you're not a child, Alex. And I sure as hell didn't treat you like one last night.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#25. We judge people by our own standards of happiness ... What makes you happy might not make that woman over there happy. But human beings have a terrible habit of thinking they know what's best for each other.

Priscilla Glenn

#26. What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.

Matt Mullenweg

#27. If you want a senator who'll partner with the president to do what's best for the nation, I'm your guy.

Tim Kaine

#28. Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

Robin Sharma

#29. Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Allen West

#30. Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

Nicole Williams

#31. The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

Jamie Ford

#32. I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#33. There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

Michael Scott

#34. I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

Richard Seymour

#35. I've had kids object to their dad's wishes (to donate)," says Ronn Wade, director of the Anatomical Services Division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "I tell them, 'Do what's best for you. You're the one who has to live with it.

Mary Roach

#36. To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Byron Katie

#37. My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

Jamie Redknapp

#38. None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

Bethany Hamilton

#39. Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

David Nasaw

#40. Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

Srikumar Rao

#41. I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

J. Tillman

#42. Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

Alice Hegan Rice

#43. Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what's best for them, and what's best for me may not be best for someone else.

Lea Michele

#44. Your parents are just trying to do what's best for you," said Carla. "A lot of people think counselors don't belong in schools." She shrugged. "I guess they're afraid I might full your head with all kinds of crazy ideas.

Louis Sachar

#45. You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people,

Elbert Guillory

#46. I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Michael Phelps

#47. You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

Brandi Carlile

#48. The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers' only interest is what's best for the country, not their own financial gain.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#49. Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost.

Tim O'Brien

#50. I believe when you truly love someone, you want what's best for that person.

Renee Ahdieh

#51. So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them.

Francis George

#52. We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us

Andre Gide

#53. Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

Rebecca Lobo

#54. You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

Craig Groeschel

#55. Trust me to know my own feelings. Don't assume you know what's best for me.

Jen Frederick

#56. LIFE'S A BALANCE OF what's best to eliminate or smart to embrace,

Susan Jean Ricci

#57. I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth."
"How can you be sure?"
"Because she'd do the same for you.

Rick Riordan

#58. Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Paulo Coelho

#59. People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You don't destroy it.

Michael Monroe

#60. I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.

Julia Child

#61. 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

#62. Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

Tupac Shakur

#63. A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.

Raven Goodwin

#64. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#65. I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

Chris Wyse

#66. We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.

Jan Brewer

#67. Sometimes, you have to do what's best for you, otherwise you're no use to anyone. Nothing good would have come from dragging it out any longer.

Zayn Malik

#68. Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.

John C. Maxwell

#69. Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

Michael Moore

#70. The Government's going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn't know what's best for her own child. I don't know, I don't know! We won't be able to call our children our own just now.

James Hanley

#71. Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#72. I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.

Kelli O'Hara

#73. Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Joe Manchin

#74. We can't hold on to the past and let it influence what's best for us.

Christine Brae

#75. We need faith to trust that God doesn't merely "know what's best for us," but that he is what's best for us no matter what our circumstances are.

Gloria Furman

#76. If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Julius Erving

#77. Parents almost always want what's best for their children. They just don't always know what that is.

Jeanne Birdsall

#78. Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

Javier Bardem

#79. 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

Victor Koo

#80. If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

Victoria Justice

#81. Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

Abbi Glines

#82. Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

Karen Russell

#83. His mother shakes her head. "Everyone thinks they know what's best. Everyone." And then a voice behind him says, "Sometimes you need to find out that you don't, though.

Patrick Ness

#84. You know what's best in letting somebody go? You only have to say goodbye once.

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#85. I don't know what's best for other people.

Penn Jillette

#86. There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

Allen West

#87. When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.

Neal A. Maxwell

#88. She's what's best for me.

Lorelei James

#89. Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Neil Peart

#90. What we want to do in this moment is rarely what's best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need to be doing things I don't want to be doing.

Vince Antonucci

#91. Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

Jude Morgan

#92. I think that every decision I made came from what's best for the kids. If both parents have the children's best interests in mind, it's going to go OK. The second that the parents don't do that, it gets ugly.

Josie Bissett

#93. First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

Dan Jenkins

#94. Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Dick Cavett

#95. The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

Paul Martin

#96. There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#97. People want what's best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there's always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers' needs.

Ben Chestnut

#98. Never forget that absolutely everything you do is for your customers. Make every decision - even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone - according to what's best for your customers.

Derek Sivers

#99. By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

Jonathan Haidt

#100. Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them ... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

Patrick Ness