Top 100 Best You Can Quotes
#1. Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.
Jane Roberts
#2. Don't hesitate and second-guess yourself. Just be the best you can be in every step you take toward your goal.
Lorii Myers
#3. Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
John Wooden
#4. There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.
Suzanna Reeves
#5. Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Keith Henson
#6. I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
Veronica Roth
#7. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.
Heather Hemmens
#8. To enjoy the beauty of life and the joy of your soul, serve, love, and give the best you can.
Debasish Mridha
#9. The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.
Paul F. Tompkins
#10. As an adult, I know about life and death. I know that good people can die too soon and bad ones can live too long. I know that life's not fair, and you take the bitter with the sweet and balance it all as best you can.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#11. In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.
Michael Schoeffling
#12. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#13. If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
Mark Cuban
#14. I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
Rafer Johnson
#15. Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.
John Assaraf
#16. There are things we can fix and things we can't. I guess life is about figuring out which is which, and dealing with both the best you can.
Ruth Cardello
#17. I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Adam Osborne
#18. I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.
Jimmy Doolittle
#19. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.
John Wooden
#20. You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.
Richard Grant
#21. I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.
Nick Jonas
#22. If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.
Jason David Frank
#23. Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.
Usama Fayyad
#24. But the truth is that the world has changed. And not participating in the conversation is a loud statement of its own to your customer base. You can't control your branding message in any case because your customers are already talking about you online. The best you can do is to participate.
Vanessa Fox
#25. See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.
Neal Shusterman
#26. To be perfect is to be doing the best you can under the circumstances you are in.
Stephen Robinson
#27. When there's not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.
Stefan Molyneux
#29. I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!
Frank Zappa
#30. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose
#31. You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
Jason Mraz
#32. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.
Doc Brown
#33. Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.
John Madden
#34. No, do the best you can to make the present production a success - don't spoil the entire play just because you happen to think of another one that you'd enjoy rather more.
Thomas More
#35. Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden
#36. When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.
Jorge Posada
#37. Life, like war, is neither right nor wrong. It just is. And rather than worry over a philosophy you can't change, you should just try to live through it as best you can.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
Orison Swett Marden
#39. You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.
Bob Shacochis
#40. Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
Mike Ditka
#41. The human heart is like a big mess of embroidery silks, and the more you pull, the more they tangle. The thing is, the threads have only got one end, if that. You can't sort them all out into colors. You just pick the ones you want and hold one to them as best you can.
Rose Lerner
#42. I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders ... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
Frank Lowy
#43. If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
Dorothy Parker
#44. Let me get this thing straight, Inigo
we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.
William Goldman
#45. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can ... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.
John Madden
#46. As Maya Angelou, American author, poet, and self-described Renaissance Woman, wrote, Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
L.R. Knost
#47. Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best".
Sakura Tsukuba
#48. As best you can, you say yes to the sensations, yes to this change. You remind yourself that this is normal, transformational pain. All is well.
Nancy Bardacke
#49. It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.
Keren Ann
#50. The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.
Wink Martindale
#51. You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.
Kristine Lilly
#53. You can't make history all the time, Dougie.
Sometimes the best you can do is make money.
James Ellroy
#54. Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.
Sylvia Day
#55. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...
Brandon Sanderson
#56. Even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.
Hadewijch
#57. The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.
Lauren Graham
#58. I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.
Kathy Najimy
#59. I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.
Bill Parcells
#60. Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.
Alberto Salazar
#61. There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Clint Eastwood
#62. No matter where you are in life, no matter what you've contributed to creating, no matter what's happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did
Louise Hay
#63. It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.
Pete Carroll
#64. Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.
Kelli Williams
#65. Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.
Gary Keller
#66. Life's random," he said. "The best you can do is pick up the pieces.
Kate Atkinson
#67. You have to be the best you can be with what you have.
Rick Hansen
#68. You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.
Lindsey O'Connor
#69. Worry is like a kettle full of water, it felt as if my mind was on the boil at a ferocious intensity with no opportunity to let off steam. There is nothing you can do but get through it as best you can.
Philip Gould
#70. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
Chuck Palahniuk
#71. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Gregory David Roberts
#72. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do
Robert Penn Warren
#73. Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.
Lily Collins
#74. The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#75. You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.
Mario Andretti
#76. Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.
Jay Bell
#77. Only you know what you are doing - or not doing - to become the best you can be.
Jan Marie Mueller
#78. You know that you can't predict and you can't expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.
Robert B. Parker
#79. If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
George Horace Lorimer
#80. Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
John Wooden
#81. If we all had names to suit us, you'd be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods."I prickled at his scathing tone. "And you'd be Miserable Blockhead.""Is that the best you can do?""Give me time. I'm half frozen." "Perhaps your name should be Icy Tyrant. No, wait. Frigid Despot.
Elly Blake
#82. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
John Prine
#83. Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#84. I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.
Rebecca Ferguson
#85. Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.
Robert Scoble
#86. Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better
Iyanla Vanzant
#87. You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
Cyndi Lauper
#88. I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can ... See things a little differently and whatnot.
Warren Christie
#89. If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Lawrence Welk
#90. Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
Lysa TerKeurst
#91. I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
Colonel Sanders
#92. I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.
David Poole
#93. You already have everything to be the best you can be inside of you. What are you waiting for to use it?
Bruno LoGreco
#94. I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.
Kiefer Sutherland
#96. I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Henry Miller
#97. How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
Curtis Mayfield
#98. I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe
#99. Your best bet is to enjoy things when life brings you something good, and tough it out as best you can when it brings you the usual shit storm.
Dima Zales
#100. If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.
Tory Nyhaug
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