"Every situation is an opportunity to be your best."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
Creator and author of Optimal Thinking

"Make the choice to be your highest and best self, regardless of the circumstances."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.

"It's not how low you fall, but how quickly you optimize that counts."
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end."
Abraham Lincoln

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily."
Plato

"An investment in knowledge pays the best return."
Benjamin Franklin

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
Helen Keller

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Victor Borge

"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive."
Graham Bendict

"The highest first."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Founder of Transcental Meditation

"Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us."
Angela Bassett
Actress

"Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter."
Jay Leno, American comedian/ performer/ talk show host "Tonight Show"

"Living your best life is your most important journey in life."
Oprah Winfrey

"Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."
Mother Theresa

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
Art Linkletter
Entertainer

"It is funny about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you will very often get it."
William Somerset Maugham
Best selling author

"You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all."
Phillip. C. McGraw, Ph.D.
Best selling author

"Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.
Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there."
David Viscott, M.D.
Best selling author

"Full effort is full victory."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Our greatest wealth is found in gratitude."
James Hanson, Ph.D.

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister

"Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack."
Tony Blair
British Prime Minister

"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it."
Barbra Streisand
Entertainer

"When I get a contract with a network I have paid my dues and I have worked to get it, and they know that they're going to get for their dollar, the best that I have to offer. I'll give it the best. No 'Catch your later.'"
Sammy Davis Jnr.
Entertainer

"Go in there and do the best you can. That's all you can do."
Tiger Woods
Golf Champion

"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories."
Bjorn Borg
Tennis Champion

"The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'"
Stephen Covey, Ph.D.
Best selling author

"The happiest and most contented people are those who each day do their acts ...all of them...as best they can."
Gene Griessman
Author

"I am a great believer in fine tuning and optimizing."
Ross Perot
Businessman and former Presidential candidate

"I am going to give this customer the maximum opportunity to do business with me."
Jim Blasingame
The Small Business Advocate

"If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul."
Gary Zukav
Best selling author

"Practice is the best of all instructors."
Publilius Syrus (b. 42 AD)

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
The 14th Dalai Lama

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up--that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Author

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
Harold Taylor

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
Arthur Rubenstein

"Your thought is the parent that gives birth to all things."
Neale Donald Walsch

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
Buddha