Top 100 Very Best Quotes
#1. I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
Lenny Kravitz
#2. In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
Jane D. Hull
#3. Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'
Gerald R. Ford
#4. I love tomorrow a lot but I'm quickly reminded that today, right now, is the best chance I have to live my very best.
Victor Adeagbo
#6. Complete salvation is being able to be so intimate with God that He's your very best friend.
Andrew Wommack
#7. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
George D. Prentice
#8. A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.
Kemi Sogunle
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.
John Stahl-Wert
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
Gordon Smith
#17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
Wallace D. Wattles
#19. 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
#20. Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#21. My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
Maria Shriver
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
John Szarkowski
#27. 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
#28. As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. 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
#30. Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
Richard Rohr
#31. In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.
Dexter Filkins
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
James C. Collins
#37. I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
Hugh Shelton
#38. 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
#39. It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu
#40. Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
John Wooden
#41. Boxing encompasses the very worst and very best of human nature and its beautiful brutality is a marvelous contradiction for a writer. It conjures up so many irreconcilably antagonistic feelings.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#42. Leaders are at their very best when they are raising up leaders around them.
Bill Hybels
#43. The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.
J.C. Ryle
#44. If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.
Mas Oyama
#45. 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
#46. I'm fighting the very best and I'm beating the very best. I'm looking to knock everybody out.
Antonio Tarver
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.
Gene Doucette
#50. The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Meister Eckhart
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life.
Diego Della Valle
#54. 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
#55. 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
#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. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
Timothy Keller
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.
Fernand Point
#63. No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
John Wooden
#64. In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.
Aaron Starmer
#65. You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.
William J. Bernstein
#66. Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
Sophia Loren
#67. 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
#69. It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life
without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
James A. Baldwin
#70. 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
#71. Love yourself and treat yourself as you would treat your very best friend. You deserve the same love you give to others.
Demi Lovato
#72. 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
#73. God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
Henry Blackaby
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
Lewis Carroll
#86. the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature
Timothy J. Keller
#87. 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
#88. The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
Charles Dickens
#89. Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the noblest work of God.
Mark Twain
#90. The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.
Harold Bloom
#92. The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.
Arnold Jacobs
#93. I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Jane Green
#94. 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
#95. Sometimes the very best things in life are given without request.
Cambria Hebert
#96. If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
Oliver Kahn
#97. I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
Bobby Knight
#98. Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.
Satya Nadella
#99. 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
#100. One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Susan Orlean
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