Suggestion Quotes

An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau

Autobiographies are only as useful
as the lives you read about and analyze
may suggest to you something that
you may find useful in your own journey through life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Many of us have been conditioned to trust others' opinions
more than our own, and I believe that sort of trust is excessive.
This is especially true with regard to authority figures -
doctors, lawyers, priests. I trust my doctor's intentions toward me,
but I don't blindly follow his suggestions
without checking other sources also.
He was trained to prescribe a pill for everything,
and does it with the best of intentions,
but I often choose to trust God's quiet voice inside me
rather than my doctor's medical advice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When someone has a strong intuitive connection,
Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma,
some past connection.
- Richard Gere

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes

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

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie