Famous Quotes

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

Walter Scott on Best

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• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Walter Scott

• "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

• "Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."

• "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

• "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

• "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."