Top 100 What Is Best Quotes
#1. Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.
Fulton J. Sheen
#2. Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
John Ruskin
#3. Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
John Henry Newman
#4. Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#5. policy is ultimately about people, what they want and what is best for them.
Daniel Kahneman
#6. A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. God's love for and protection of us are always consistent with his will for us - and his will for us is always consistent with what is best, not only for us, but also for a fallen world that he is always trying to rescue.
Craig Parshall
#8. People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.
John Spence
#9. To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.
Helen Andelin
#10. I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.
Benjamin Carson
#11. Give me the grace to believe that you really do know what is best for me and that I do not. May I cling to Your character and rejoice in Your pursuit of me.
Kenneth D. Boa
#13. But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
William J. Clinton
#14. I will be king. Your country needs me. I'm gonna bring out the best in Wakanda. And what is best in Wakanda is that fantastic pile of vibranium. I'm gonna make 'em love me, baby.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#16. God does not rule in nations, but He is mindful of them. He can and does place people in positions of influence who want what is best for the people and who trust in the Lord.
Henry B. Eyring
#18. What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
Albert Camus
#19. We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.
Joan D. Chittister
#20. From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.
Frederick Lenz
#21. We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.
Homer
#22. Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.
Miranda Kerr
#23. We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.
Matthew Henry
#24. What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.
Mark Rowlands
#25. His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.
Billy Graham
#26. The only trust we need is that of our own judgment and choices about what is best for us.
Elaina Marie
#27. For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us. After
Bohumil Hrabal
#28. Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.
Frederick Lenz
#29. The act of wishing someone a good life even if it means us not being a part of it is the purest act of love. To know what is best for someone.
Monique Gold
#30. Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.
Joni Ernst
#31. I can't tell you what to do. Only you know what is best for you, but I can tell you this much: love isn't a destination, it's a journey. You have to be willing to walk together or you will end up walking further and further apart.
Michelle Frost
#32. God knows far better than we do what is best for us. Thank God even when He says "No" or "Wait." His answer is always perfect.
Billy Graham
#33. The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.
Kate McGahan
#34. Love is giving the people ye love what is best for them, Bav, no' what is best for ye. It doesna matter if it rips yer heart out by the roots first. Ye've never learned tha', no' in yer thousand thousands of years, and ye never will.
Heather R. Blair
#35. Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So
Robyn Davidson
#37. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr Jr.
#38. Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.
Thomas J. Watson
#40. Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone.
Paulo Coelho
#41. The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. When we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have trust in him. We must trust him enough that we are content to accept his will, knowing that he knows what is best for us.
Dallin H. Oaks
#43. President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.
Charlie Crist
#44. Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
John Ruskin
#45. It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Michael Crapo
#46. If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!
Billy Graham
#47. Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
Jimmy Johnson
#48. What is best and most necessary usually happens.
Knute Nelson
#49. People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.
Robert M. Pirsig
#50. People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.
Cheon Eunbi
#51. Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
Plutarch
#52. Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.
Sherry Argov
#53. True love is an act of the will - a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.
Billy Graham
#54. What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
Gustav Mahler
#55. Blessed are they who believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#56. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone
Barack Obama
#57. Tribal Chief 1: The will of the people is what is best. That is what democracy means
Tribal Chief 2: But if the people don't know what they are talking about, how can that be the best?
Leonard Wibberley
#58. We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.
William McKinley
#59. Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
Rick Warren
#60. No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
Plato
#61. Moreover, if we joyfully confess the lordship of Christ, then when we ask what is best for people our answers will be cast in terms of what he thinks is best for people, not necessarily what people think is best for themselves.
D. A. Carson
#62. To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
Dean Koontz
#63. One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all.
Aristotle.
#64. Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
Paul Ryan
#66. It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about our state.
Clementa C. Pinckney
#67. So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
Haniel Long
#68. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
Herman Melville
#69. We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Hillary Clinton
#70. Yet the Lord knows what is best for me, and my surroundings are determined by Him. Wherever He places me, He does so to strengthen my faith and power and to draw me into closer communion with Himself. And even if confined to a dungeon, my soul will prosper.
Lettie B. Cowman
#71. In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I won't try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.
Barack Obama
#72. If you keep asking for what is best, God will give you very good chance to achieve it, even if you don't believe in God.
Bill Blackman
#73. When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#74. Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
Susan Orlean
#75. Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
#76. God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.
Standing Bear
#77. The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
Arthur Davison Ficke
#78. I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.
Michael Gove
#79. To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#80. Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis Bacon
#81. You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
Katherine Marsh
#82. The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Benjamin Franklin
#83. What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
Robert Stone
#84. Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.
Paulo Coelho
#85. No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.
Seneca.
#86. I think most people are motivated to want to do what is best for themselves. People want to avoid STDs. I believe in a system that leaves it up to the individual to protect their own health.
Chester Brown
#87. A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
Marilyn Monroe
#88. When you have a good connection with the field of consciousness, you can use your intuition freely and enjoy a continuous feeling of knowing what is best and right to do in a given situation.
Jorgen Bonde Eriksen
#89. [A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.
Jonah Goldberg
#90. When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
Blaine Lee Pardoe
#91. If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
Francis Chan
#92. Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.
Van Morrison
#93. And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.
Woodrow Wilson
#94. I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails the best hopes of mankind fail with it.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#95. Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.
Radhanath Swami
#96. If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#97. Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Voltaire
#98. You are the only one who knows what is best for yourself. Find it IN you.
Catherine B. Roy
#99. The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done ... Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.
Samuel Adams
#100. If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.
Neale Donald Walsch
