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107 Own Best quotes by 92 unique authors

Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways… — Mary Anne Radmacher
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a… — Laurie Helgoe
In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is… — Mantak Chia
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. — Anthony Burgess
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is… — Walter J. Phillips
There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to… — Norman Vincent Peale
With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to… — Frederick Lenz
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is… — Robert Farrar Capon
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its… — George Steiner
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the… — Garrett Hardin
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends,… — Anne Lamott
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who… — Joyce Carol Oates
My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well… — Jane Seymour
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own… — Samuel Smiles
I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've… — Richard Trumka
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be… — Charlie Pierce
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… — Aristotle
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. — Diane von Furstenberg
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn… — Barbara Kingsolver
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody… — Swami Satchidananda
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others… — Mary Doria Russell
You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path. — Juliet Marillier
You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down. — Paulo Coelho

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