Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.