„If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.“

„Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.“

—  Paulo Coelho, livro Onze Minutos

Fonte: Eleven Minutes

„Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.“

—  Tryon Edwards American theologian 1809 - 1894

Fonte: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 483.

„If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).“

—  Cal Newport American computer scientist 1982

Fonte: So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

„Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer“

—  Linda Lael Miller American writer 1949

Fonte: The Rustler

„A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.“

—  Salman Rushdie British Indian novelist and essayist 1947

„There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.“

—  Alan Keyes American politician 1950

Lynn University Commencement Speech, May 6, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_05_06lynnu.htm.
2000

„Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.“

—  Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906

„Give the world the best you have, and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have got anyway!“

—  Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997

„Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation.“

—  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel German poet, critic and scholar 1772 - 1829

Nicht in die politische Welt verschleudere du Glauben und Liebe, aber in der göttlichen Welt der Wissenschaft und der Kunst opfre dein Innerstes in den heiligen Feuerstrom ewiger Bildung.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 106

„What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.“

—  James K. Morrow, livro Only Begotten Daughter

Fonte: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 2 (p. 37)

„I wanted one thing – to show the fantastic world created by nature over millions of years. Film offered me that chance.“

—  Karel Zeman Czech film director, artist and animator 1910 - 1989

Šlo mi o jedno — ukázat fantastický svět, který vytvořila příroda před mnoha miliony let. A film mi tuto možnost nabízel.
Quoted on the website of the Karel Zeman Museum in Prague (in English http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/en/karel-zeman/quotes and Czech http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/cz/karel-zeman/citaty).

„Progressives find it hard to imagine that there are others who in good faith don’t want the better world they’re offering and will fiercely resist it.“

—  George Packer American journalist and writer 1960

' Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/witnessing-the-obama-presidency-from-start-to-finish' by George Packer, The New Yorker, June 18, 2018.

„I only ever wanted, since the age of 13, to be the best singer of the best band in the world.“

—  Ian McCulloch singer, musician 1959

Spin magazine (2008)

„Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.“

—  Charles Eames American designer, half of duo the Eames 1907 - 1978

p. 90: Also cited in: AA Files: Annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Nr. 31-32 (1996). p. 111

„Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?“

—  Pamela Dean, Tam Lin

Fonte: Tam Lin

„There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.“

—  P. J. O'Rourke American journalist 1947

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

„Happiness and suffering, however extreme, are mental events. The mind depends upon the body, and the body upon the world, but everything good or bad that happens in your life must appear in consciousness to matter. This fact offers ample opportunity to make the best of bad situations—changing your perception of the world is often as good as changing the world—but it also allows a person to be miserable even when all the material and social conditions for happiness have been met. During the normal course of events, your mind will determine the quality of your life.“

—  Sam Harris American author, philosopher and neuroscientist 1967

Fonte: 2010s, Waking Up (2014), p. 204

„Ronnie is the best player in the world at the moment, right-handed, left-handed, one-legged, one-armed, whatever you want!“

—  Stephen Hendry

On Ronnie O'Sullivan They said it: Sporting quotes of the week, 2008-04-02, 2008-04-02, Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=563414&in_page_id=1779&ct=5,

„The best smell in the world is that man that you love.“

—  Jennifer Aniston television and film actress from the United States 1969