Best quotes

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.