Being The Best Quotes - Page 5

• I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Gentleman, Dresses, Literature

  1879 Thackeray, ch.9.

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• I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mother, Weed, Marijuana

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• I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Strong, Believe, Iraq

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• I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

  Nate Robinson

  Soccer, Player, Nba

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• You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

  Lauren Burns

  Psychology, Determined, Positive Psychology

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• He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Choices, Doe

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

  Francine Rivers

  Christian, Trying, Pushing

  Francine Rivers (2012). “The Atonement Child”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

  Gregory Maguire

  Glowing, Tails, Might

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• The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Elephants, Design

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• If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Would Be, World

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Facts, Can Do

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• Be the best at what you do

  Richard Branson

  Self Improvement, Improvement

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• If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

  George Lois

  Ambition, Destiny, Men

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• You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pride, Race

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• Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Important, States, Middle

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “The Gift”, HarperCollins UK

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• Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

  Paulo Coelho

  Use, Talent, Universal

  "The Winner Stands Alone". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2008.

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• Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

  Randy Anderson

  Excellence, Better Than You

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• How to be the best that you can be

  Meg Cabot

  Being Yourself, Hoosiers, Just Be Yourself

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• Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Running, Mad

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• It was near curfew time, and I was dropping him off for the night. He shook his head. "Rose, I don't know if you're crazy or not, but I'm actually starting to think you might be the best guardian- or soon-to-be guardian- out there." "Did you just give me a serious compliment?" I asked. He turned his back on me and headed inside his dorm. "Good night.

  Richelle Mead

  Good Night, Crazy, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.515, Penguin

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• There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports

  Rebecca Lobo

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• I write storys to entertain not to be the best

  Daniel Handler

  Writing

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• Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Years, Best Year

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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