Top 100 Single Best Quotes
#1. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon Musk
#2. When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Tom Rath
#3. The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.
Steven Pinker
#4. If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.
Michael Bloomberg
#5. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Rachel Maddow
#6. What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
Alice Hoffman
#7. The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.
Elizabeth Warren
#8. The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free,
Steve Albini
#9. Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make
Carol Bellamy
#10. It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
Calvin Trillin
#11. Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
Steve Jobs
#12. The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.
Rachel Maddow
#13. Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Scott Adams
#14. Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.
Marc Andreessen
#15. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.
Brent Schlender
#16. It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.
Shannon Hale
#17. The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
Ted Cruz
#18. It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'
Pete Wentz
#19. The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
Homer
#20. A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
Brian Selznick
#21. The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water.
Rick Warren
#22. There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.
Michael Wilbon
#23. Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.
John Ratey
#24. We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.
Seth Godin
#25. The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'
Simon Sinek
#26. While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#27. The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.
Will Smith
#28. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.
Cynthia Rylant
#29. As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
Daniela Hantuchova
#30. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Justin Trudeau
#31. The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
Ed Sheeran
#32. When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).
Andy Roddick
#33. Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.
Edward Albert
#34. My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
Brian Eno
#36. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company,
Walter Isaacson
#37. The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
Candace Bushnell
#38. You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.
George Halas
#39. I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
Ian Botham
#40. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
#41. The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
Harlan Coben
#42. We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.
Marc Andreessen
#43. Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you.
Rhonda Byrne
#44. The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
Aristotle.
#45. You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.
Bobby Orr
#46. The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
Larry David
#47. Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
David Markson
#48. A chuckle escaped Meredith's lips as Cassie swung from sleepy little girl to sympathetic confidante to vengeful angel all in the course of a single minute.
Karen Witemeyer
#49. Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us.
Russell T. Davies
#50. I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.
Horace Binney Wallace
#51. They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.
Marilyn Grey
#52. On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.
Sheeja Jose
#53. I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.
Shemar Moore
#54. Suddenly there were all sorts of words crowding on Zane's tongue, and he couldn't get a single one out, much less three that would prove he knew the best thing to happen to him in his entire life lay right there in his arms.
Abigail Roux
#55. I'm not sure what they mean by "revenge is a dish best served cold." But I do know this - nobody's ever satisfied with a single helping.
- Heman Lindon, McPherson, Kansas ( a character in Heels Over Head )
Clay G. Small
#56. I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
#57. Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.
Ben Bernanke
#58. One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.
Allison Pearson
#59. To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.
Mandy Hale
#60. There are plenty to love you so try to be satisfied with Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers, friends and babies till the best lover of all comes to give you your reward.
Louisa May Alcott
#61. The Best Part Of Missing You Is, "I Recall Every Single Moment Spent With You."
Bt The Worst Part Is,"I Miss You So Badly.
Mr. Sid
#62. I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
John Mellencamp
#63. The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.
Brian Krans
#64. You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
Morgan Freeman
#65. You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
Kara DioGuardi
#66. And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.
Rachel Caine
#67. Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
Bobby Knight
#68. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.
Solange Knowles
#69. I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
Halle Berry
#70. I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.
Chris Chocola
#71. In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.
Stephen Potter
#72. It had taken her whole life to make a single friend. And here these girls had become best friends in minutes as if making friends was the simplest thing in the world. Agatha pricked with shame.
Soman Chainani
#73. I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right every single time.
Corey Reynolds
#74. Since we were only going to the best place on the Earth, where every single minute of every day was different and filled with promise, what the heck difference did it make what we were gonna do
Haven Kimmel
#75. There is one single thread binding my way together ... the way of the Master consists in doing one's best ... that is all.
Confucius
#76. What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.
Charlie Munger
#77. Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed by the strongest evidence that we have, to come to the best and most reasonable conclusion that God is the cause of everything - all without ever taking even a single step of blind faith.
Lewis N. Roe
#78. I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.
Reggie Lee
#79. Indeed we generally remember ancient civilizations best by those buildings which most exploited the labor of ordinary people and most glorified the vanity of a single autocrat.
Chris Brazier
#80. I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.
John Lydon
#82. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.
Molly Sims
#83. Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#84. I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
Ian Anderson
#85. War is wonderful. They'll never stamp it out. It's one of the few times people can act their best. It's so economical in terms of gesture and motion, every single gesture is precise, every effort is at its maximum. Nobody goofs off. Everybody is responsible for his brother.
Leonard Cohen
#86. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.
Mandy Hale
#87. I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness.
Nalini Singh
#88. I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.
Tichina Arnold
#89. Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.
Taylor Swift
#90. Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.
Shannon Hale
#91. Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Meryl Streep
#92. Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.
Paul Feyerabend
#93. We have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we did, we did at the time in the best of faith. Of course, we took some bold steps and often did things with much single-mindedness; but this is surely preferable to never putting one's convictions to the test, for lack of will or courage.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#94. She doesn't even tell me it'll be okay when every single ounce of whatever was left inside my chest is propelled out of me the moment I realize that the very best part of me is dead.
Colleen Hoover
#95. I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.
Ernst Junger
#96. I'd just single handedly given the love of my life to my best friend - on a silver platter, with a shiny bow attached.
Rachel Van Dyken
#97. I spent years being angry with God because He never gave me the husband I wanted. All those years gone, wasted! I should have enjoyed each day as it came and recognized that if I remained single it was because God knew singleness was best for me.
Jill Stengl
#98. How to find a good spouse?
-the best single way is to deserve a good spouse.
Charles T. Munger
#99. Being ready is state of mind ... It's a mentality. Do you think your the best in the world? Do you work hard every single day?
Urijah Faber
#100. Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth.
No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.
Paul Chadwick
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