My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford 
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
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
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
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
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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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
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
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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 did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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