Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
—Michelangelo
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
—Plato
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
—Oscar Wilde
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
—Michelangelo
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
—Charles Darwin
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
—Charles Dickens
The best ideas are common property.
—Seneca
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
—Henry David Thoreau
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
‘Tis the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
—Ernest Hemingway
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
—Aristotle
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford
The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
—Charlie Chaplin
I do believe the best definition of man is that he is the eternally ungrateful biped.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
—Plato
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
—Plato
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
—Socrates
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
—René Descartes
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
—Charlie Chaplin
“Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man’s best self.”
It is very hard to see how this can be for the best. But we are not asked to see, and why need we, when we know?
—Amy Carmichael