The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.