The Best Thing Quotes

#1. The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Ron Eglash

#2. Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. - John Tyree

Nicholas Sparks

#3. In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

Sylvester McCoy

#4. The worst mistake I ever made has become the best thing I ever did.

- Darius Wainwright

Jayne Fresina

#5. Whatever you do try not to focus on the mistakes of yesterday. It doesn't matter if you've fallen numerous of times, the best thing to do is to rise up again. Happy New Year 2017.

Euginia Herlihy

#6. The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Dean Winters

#7. The best thing for soothing a disappointed mind is oxygen. A couple of deep inhalations of the old "O" rejuvenates every cell in the body.

Alan Bradley

#8. The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.

Fred Shuttlesworth

#9. I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

Zoe Kazan

#10. It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

Samael Aun Weor

#11. The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble ... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Warren Buffett

#12. I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.

Raul Labrador

#13. I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. The worst thing as an actor is when you're not getting opportunities to try and show what you can do; the best thing is when you get material that really lets you express something and that you're excited about.

Domhnall Gleeson

#15. All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Arnold Bennett

#16. If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his mind went to places he could not control, places that made him feel uncomfortable. Exhaustion was the best thing.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit ... he has it all.

Bill Walton

#18. The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

Christopher Fry

#19. The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

John Tukey

#20. 'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.

Axl Rose

#21. I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Mike Vallely

#22. The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#23. Investment is the best thing to do with time

Sunday Adelaja

#24. The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don't have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database.

Kevin Mitnick

#25. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.

Hunter Hayes

#26. Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

Lara Stone

#28. The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

Terri Windling

#29. I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Robert A. Heinlein

#30. I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

Matthew Lillard

#31. Don't take anything personally. You're going to come up against a lot and the best thing is to ignore it and don't let the bastards get you down and keep moving forward because you are going to be treated differently.

Leslye Headland

#32. Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

Ian McKellen

#33. The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.

Ralph Lauren

#34. The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Janis Ian

#35. It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

Benjamin Jealous

#37. If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#38. The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

Rita Ora

#39. If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

Ricky Gervais

#40. Being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them,but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself

Anonymous

#41. Autumn said to me, You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don't prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It's harder, but it's impossible

Siobhan Vivian

#42. To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#43. I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

Tia Mowry

#44. Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.

Kathleen Hanna

#45. 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

Robert Ruark

#46. The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#47. Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.

Sarah Noffke

#48. Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#49. I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.

Tiger Woods

#50. Trying to cool his jets, trying to let her stay in charge, he attempted to hold back, but she let out this breathy little whimper like he was the best thing she'd ever tasted.

Jill Shalvis

#51. If anyone tells you love makes you invincible, tell them they're full of shit. Love makes you paranoid and insecure and nervous you're going to fuck it all up and lose the best thing that's ever happened to you.

Cherie M. Hudson

#52. Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

Owen Feltham

#53. So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

A.A. Milne

#54. Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together.

Francis Chan

#55. The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

Laurie Anderson

#56. The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Victoria Billings

#57. When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

John Pomfret

#58. The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Frederick Lenz

#59. The best thing about this journey is I know I have it in me to keep going. Battle-tested, you know? Now, my heart laughs at the word 'quit'.

Ace Antonio Hall

#60. If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting.

Dexter Palmer

#61. The best thing Valentine ever did for me was send me to you.

Cassandra Clare

#62. For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.

Busta Rhymes

#63. I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

Bob Harper

#64. The best thing I've done? Well, I've created four beautiful children.

Donald Trump

#65. The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

Mardy Grothe

#66. Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Sue Miller

#67. 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?

Jackie Kennedy

#68. If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Aldous Huxley

#69. That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

Topher Grace

#70. People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

Frederick Lenz

#71. The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

Penn Badgley

#72. Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

Jimmy Piersall

#73. The best thing that life can offer is happiness. The best way to find happiness is through unconditional love.

Debasish Mridha

#74. The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

Ted Rall

#75. I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

Kevin Pietersen

#76. It's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count.

Tim Tharp

#77. The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Iris Murdoch

#78. He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

Lilith Saintcrow

#79. Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star.

Cindy Crawford

#80. You're everything to me, Peaches. You always have been. Always. You're the best thing I've ever had in my life." He kissed her. "You're my everything.

Sophie Jackson

#81. When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#82. With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.

Jane Smiley

#83. I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

Victoria Justice

#84. The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an oponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to your self, respect;
to all men charity.

Swami Sivananda Radha

#85. I guess the best thing about having a successful record like this is, like, I know I'm at least good for another five years, like, before everyone starts to like - all the haters start to come out again. And that's really what it is.

Mark Ronson

#86. At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

John Denver

#87. The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

Jack Hannah

#88. So to overcome the problems of personality the best thing is to witness, practice witnessing everything: before talking, practice witnessing, before giving any comments, just start witnessing. It's a very, very satisfying attitude.

Nirmala Srivastava

#89. Gabe pulled the card from the envolope.

I want to help you.

He flipped the card over.

You are the best thing to ever happen to Vernon.

Then in the tiniest script were words that Gabe had to squint to read:

PS. The dog's name is Guppy.

Audrey Shafer

#90. My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

Ann Curry

#91. The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

Peter Kreeft

#92. Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

David Byrne

#93. Sometimes, the best thing we can change about a situation is our perspective.

Joan Gable

#94. For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

Abby Wambach

#95. She misses her balcony more than anything. You're never quite alone when you and stand on a balcony - you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You're among them, but also not. That's the best thing about balconies.

Fredrik Backman

#96. You are the best thing to happen to me, bar none. You, Abbey...all of this. You both walked into my life and...I never knew what I wanted until you did.

Jessica Topper

#97. I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them

Matt Chandler

#98. You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.

DMX

#99. The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.

Adam Levine

#100. I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson