Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.
The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
If you win a Super Bowl before you’re fired, you’re a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
The best part of being with the Warriors has been the team camaraderie, the team meals, the team pranks, the bond we share.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.
If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don’t have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He’s the best father my children could have.
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I’m the best at getting my own point across.
My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
I’m a corporate thug. That’s the best way to be.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
I always try to get the best result out of it, I’m not there to just sit second or sit third. I’m a winner, and I want to win every single race, and I will always go for it.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That’s why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.
If you’re nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Those who know the least obey the best.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I’ve made some bad choices.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your 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.
The monster was the best friend I ever had.
I’d realize it’s not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
