Top 100 Do My Best Quotes
#1. I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.
Ellen McLaughlin
#2. I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.
Britt Ekland
#3. I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Alfred Hitchcock
#4. Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
Kelly Reilly
#5. I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
Bear Bryant
#6. The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
Jeremy Piven
#7. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#8. I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.
Janet Reno
#9. Because I love you, and to see you in any kind of pain is intolerable. If you are hurt, I will always do my best to see that you are mended.
K.M. Shea
#10. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#11. I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.
Ashley Greene
#12. I mightn't be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was playing a shamanistic role. Language was my medicine and with it I would do my best to record my awakening and help heal with my words ... The journey isn't over yet.
Rak Razam
#14. I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
Naomi Benaron
#15. I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
Lucas Grabeel
#16. I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
Laila Ali
#17. Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!
Dawn Wells
#19. I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for that. All I want people to say is that I do my best. I do work. I never let anything slipshod get past me. I think I can tell a good story and I can create characters that ring true.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
Lorraine Toussaint
#21. Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.
Jeff Flake
#23. I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
Jeff Bridges
#25. I'm serious, Brishen. Promise me you'll not get yourself killed or maimed out there."
"I can't make that promise, Ildiko, but I can swear to do my best to come back with all arms and legs attached."
She frowned. "Your head too, if you please."
Brishen laughed then. "My head too.
Grace Draven
#26. Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.
Dina Powell
#27. Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
Susan Boyle
#29. Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.
Danica Patrick
#30. I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However, most of my books are researched based on Canadian laws or the laws of each country (ie: Mexico and USA) and I do my best to make them accurate.
Franny Armstrong
#31. To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
Karl Kraus
#32. I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
Sade Adu
#33. I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#34. When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
Jeff Lemire
#35. All leaders have to live with disappointment at some point or another. If I have to learn that lesson early, I won't enjoy it, but I will do my best not to let you down.
Joelle Charbonneau
#36. His legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me
Richard North Patterson
#37. 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
#38. I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.
Manny Pacquiao
#39. No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
Ben Carson
#40. Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
Peter McWilliams
#41. What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#42. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.
Katie Hoff
#43. If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.
Hiroko Sakai
#44. My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
Kate Bosworth
#45. Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his head in her lap. "You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?"
She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best.
Christine Feehan
#46. I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.
Shane West
#47. I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.
Bernie Sanders
#48. Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
Ian Ziering
#49. It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
Ian McDiarmid
#50. If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.
Pele
#51. I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.
Aeriel Miranda
#52. Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great help: there are almost two hundred cartoons included in the book, including dozens from the brilliant Bizarro strip.
Karen Dawn
#53. I try to do my best to have fun off the court.
Marat Safin
#54. If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.
Shinichi Suzuki
#55. What did I see? It's no use telling you there are no words. Of course there are words; there are always words. The question is: can I wield them well enough to evoke the power of what I witnessed? That I doubt. But let me do my best.
Clive Barker
#56. I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.
Bill Murray
#57. You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.
Robert Kirkman
#58. I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#59. With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
Bruce Beresford
#60. I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.
Michael Schumacher
#62. If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Jeff VanderMeer
#63. I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.
Jonny Lee Miller
#64. anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur
Dan Simmons
#65. But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
Arthur Cayley
#66. I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#67. It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.
Sean Lennon
#68. My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.
Dash Mihok
#69. I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.
Phillip Phillips
#70. I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.
Alison Eastwood
#71. I may not be the best but I will do my best.
Hawk
#72. Worry and stress is one of the most unhealthiest things. They say that cancer and sickness comes from that, so you know I do my best. There are times that I do feel very stressed, but I do my best to keep it away and get plenty of rest.
Carmen Electra
#74. Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.
Pele
#75. Today I will strugle and ask God, "What was it I'm suppose to be doing down here, an probably he will send another person form whose shoes I am not worthy of wipingthe dirt, and I'll do my best to love him.
Terry A. O'Neal
#76. My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
Magdalena Neuner
#77. I let her hold me for a long while. I do my best not to cry. My best is not enough.
Victoria Aveyard
#78. I think that I'm a pretty great producer, but the vision behind Batman is Chris Nolan. I'm there to do my best to help execute that vision, and I think I do a really good job, but the vision is Chris Nolan.
Charles Roven
#79. I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.
Joey Votto
#80. I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
Landon Donovan
#81. I'm looking for a hard-headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed
Cat Stevens
#82. Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.
Jon Jon Augustavo
#83. Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
Nicholas Sparks
#84. When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?
Maya Angelou
#85. At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.
Benjamin Boukpeti
#86. I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.
Jared Leto
#87. I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
Anthony Bourdain
#88. I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.
Common
#89. Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.
Ricky Martin
#90. So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.
Gerard Butler
#91. I do my best work under pressure, so I'll nick an artery, and my husband isn't allowed to stanch the bleeding till I've banged out a chapter.
Zadie Smith
#92. In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.
Jenni Schaefer
#93. The pressure is always there ... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.
Lyoto Machida
#94. I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.
Jennifer Niven
#95. I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.
Pele
#96. Hanna," I cut in. "I promise to do my best not to motorboat you at the altar.
Christina Lauren
#97. A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.
Apolo Ohno
#98. Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.
Linda Hamilton
#99. Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.
James Altucher
#100. Alec put out his hand. "We're going to make it through this, but just in case ... " Mark shook the man's hand, squeezing it. "Thanks for the billion times you saved my life." "It's been an honor serving with you, kid. Maybe today you'll save mine a couple more times." "I'll do my best.
James Dashner
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