Best Quotes

These 63 quotes on the best come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Gautama Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama Buddha
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. — Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists.
Lao Tzu
The best fighter is never angry. — Lao Tzu
The best fighter is never angry.
Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' — Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. — Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. — Wole Soyinka
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Wole Soyinka
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. — Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals. — Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals.
Aristotle
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. — Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. — Napoleon Hill
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. — Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. — Thich Nhat Hanh
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. — Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Abraham Lincoln
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. — Oprah Winfrey
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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