Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.