Top 100 The Very Best Sayings
#1. Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.
Louis Navellier
#2. As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.
Marie Lu
#3. The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
Lou Holtz
#5. They are funny, too. And not always intentionally, either, which as far as I am concerned is the very best kind of funny.
Michael Booth
#6. I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.
Jill Douglas
#7. My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.
Brother Lawrence
#8. The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.
Jami Attenberg
#9. And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions.
Terry Pratchett
#10. The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.
Mike Sherman
#12. Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.
Stephen H. Segal
#13. The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.
Jessye Norman
#14. Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.
Michelle Obama
#15. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.
Dave Willis
#16. Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature
Timothy J. Keller
#18. The great thing about what we do at DTS, all the studios, but especially DTS, because we're talking about our film, is we swing for the fences. So that being said, we're out to tell the very best story we can with the highest quality that we're able to do.
Klay Hall
#19. The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
Charles Dickens
#20. The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.
Harold Bloom
#21. I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Jane Green
#22. When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.
Martin Luther
#23. Sometimes the very best things in life are given without request.
Cambria Hebert
#24. I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
Bobby Knight
#25. Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.
Satya Nadella
#26. To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best
Ingvar Kamprad
#27. A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
Bertrand Russell
#28. A woman in love respects and raises up her man. She is his constant source of support. She matches his heart and passions with her own. She sees the very best in him, even when he does not. She is his foundation; what he returns home to.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#29. I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it
Louise L. Hay
#30. In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#31. I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Twyla Tharp
#32. We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.
Joe Lieberman
#33. Once upon a time," Gemma began, the older two girls whispering the opening with her, "which is all times and no times but not the very best of times,there was a castle. And in it lived a king who wanted nothing more in the world than a child.
Jane Yolen
#34. There's no such thing as the very best. If you're doing your best, it's only because you haven't yet found a way to do better.
Ron Kaufman
#35. Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.
Michael Dirda
#36. When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought.
Thomas Bernhard
#37. I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.
Matthew Fox
#38. To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.
Sam Altman
#39. You take what you're given and make the very best of it.
A.L. Jackson
#40. I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.
Louise Hay
#41. I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Susan Orlean
#43. Life is good, dealing with it can be hard, and sometimes the very best thing - no, the only thing - we can do to face another day is to laugh at ourselves, and share a laugh with others.
Bob Carey
#44. To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
Michael Caine
#45. An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.
Martin Scorsese
#46. Whatever God wants is fine by me ... I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty
Scatman John
#47. I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
Lenny Kravitz
#48. In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.
Aaron Starmer
#49. No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
John Wooden
#50. I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.
Fernand Point
#51. I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection
Frederic Chopin
#52. The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature
Joseph Pilates
#53. The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice as regards how to play, serfs to their talent, but the very best are able to do so as they want, impressing personality upon ability.
Daniel Harris
#54. The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.
Jostein Gaarder
#55. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
Timothy Keller
#56. You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue.
Walter Russell
#57. Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
Anthony Goldbloom
#58. You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn't let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that's because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself.
A Meredith Walters
#59. Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life.
Diego Della Valle
#60. I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
Ted Allen
#61. Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Meister Eckhart
#63. Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.
Gene Doucette
#64. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln
#65. We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#66. I'm fighting the very best and I'm beating the very best. I'm looking to knock everybody out.
Antonio Tarver
#67. if anyone comes into my domain without explicit permission, I'm going to impale you in a way that will give you the very best idea of what it feels like to be a corn dog.
Dannika Dark
#68. Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
John Wooden
#69. It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu
#70. sometimes the very best thing to do, I find, is to turn off the news and keep writing our own stories and lullabies.
Shauna Niequist
#71. I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
Hugh Shelton
#72. You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
Yo-Yo Ma
#73. For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
Hannah Arendt
#74. If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.
Benjamin Wood
#75. The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!
Charles Kuralt
#76. Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
Richard Rohr
#77. Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
Lawrence Hargrave
#78. These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.
Terry Pratchett
#79. The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
John Szarkowski
#80. My future seemed to stretch before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the very best does. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#81. Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in two ...
Carol Rifka Brunt
#82. It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.
Pete Carroll
#83. A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
Ellen Ochoa
#84. All that matters is that you be the very best you you can be ...
And that's something no one else can do.
Aaron Blaylock
#86. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
Wallace D. Wattles
#87. Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
Gordon Smith
#88. Okay, then I used to like that kind of thing. Now I like your kind of thing. It's the very best kind of thing. Makes all other kinds of things look like shit.
M. Leighton
#89. Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.
Brian Tracy
#90. The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
Anthony Albanese
#91. I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
#92. Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.
John Stahl-Wert
#93. I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe and is what - what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.
Barack Obama
#94. Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
Hillary Clinton
#95. I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business.
Monica Crowley
#96. Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
Jeff Bingaman
#97. The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.
Simon Van Booy
#98. Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.
Eknath Easwaran
#99. It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure]
Adrian Lamo
#100. Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
Og Mandino
