“Our best thoughts come from others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Read 200 of the best quotes about doing your best, the best things in life and bringing out the best in yourself, from Aristotle, Shakespeare, Emerson and more.
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best of life is conversation.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least.'”
Henry David Thoreau
“The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before.”
Mark Twain
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“Honesty is the best policy.”
Aesop
“It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.”
Aesop
“The best is the cheapest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.”
Samuel Johnson
“Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”
Francis Bacon
“For forms of government let fools contest; whate'er is best administer'd is best.”
Alexander Pope
“Whatever is, is right.”
Alexander Pope
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”
Robert Burns
“Well, less is more.”
Robert Browning
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Charles Dickens
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Charles Dickens
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”
Jane Austen
“Choose well; your choice is brief, and yet endless.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow