Best Quotes

“As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.”

-- Tom Hanks

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

-- Ray Bradbury

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

-- Moliere

“Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.”

-- Mitt Romney

“No man fails who does his best.”

-- Orison Swett Marden

“Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”

-- Peter Ustinov

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

-- Jane Austen

“Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.”

-- Samuel Smiles

“You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.”

-- P. J. O'Rourke

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

-- William Butler Yeats