What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. Benjamin Franklin Fairless
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. George Santayana
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois Fenelon
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. Virginia Woolf
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night. Robin Hayes
Canada's the best country in the world. Justin Bieber
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. Charles Caleb Colton
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new. Marilyn Manson
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. Thomas Huxley
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. Baltasar Gracian
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. Clarence Thomas
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. Aeschylus
I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. Henry Rollins
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. Lily Tomlin
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. St. Jerome
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. James M. Barrie
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. Charles Caleb Colton
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. Agatha Christie