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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
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
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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