3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
3 December 2020 Xenophon There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
3 December 2020 Heraclitus The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
3 December 2020 Juliette Gordon Low Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
3 December 2020 David Bowie To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.
3 December 2020 Steve Earle Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
3 December 2020 Alfred Hitchcock I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
3 December 2020 Christopher Morley From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
3 December 2020 Stanley Kubrick Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
3 December 2020 Harold W. Dodds Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
3 December 2020 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
3 December 2020 Jada Pinkett Smith My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
3 December 2020 Eli Khamarov The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.
