Do The Best I Can Quotes

#1. I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.

Robert B. Parker

#2. I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

Wen Ho Lee

#3. Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

Joe Perry

#4. I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.

John Salmons

#5. I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs ... well, so be it.

Carol Emshwiller

#6. My philosophy in life ... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

Columba Bush

#7. I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

John Mayall

#8. Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

Cheryl Ladd

#9. I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.

Miranda Hart

#10. What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

Parker Stevenson

#11. I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.

Christian Finnegan

#12. I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Carlos Gonzalez

#13. I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'

Eamonn Walker

#14. I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

John Key

#15. Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right.

Maurice Strong

#16. I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.

Monica Lewinsky

#17. I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

Elisha Cuthbert

#18. I know I want to always do the best I can.

Adam Sandler

#19. I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Mandy Patinkin

#20. I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Carly Patterson

#21. I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Mark Spitz

#22. Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.

Tim Tebow

#23. My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Harper Lee

#24. I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

Imelda May

#25. I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

Sarah Dessen

#26. Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my concert, and they give me the opportunity to share two hours of their lives. I want to do the best I can, for visuals, sound and everything!

Hiromi

#27. With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and ... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.

Heber J. Grant

#28. I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Maria Schell

#29. Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

Loretta Young

#30. I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

Yani Tseng

#31. I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

Guy Clark

#32. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Melina Marchetta

#33. Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#34. I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Martin Lawrence

#35. I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Beltran

#36. Entertainers have no brain ... I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still ...

Seohyun

#37. I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

Jack Kerouac

#38. The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

Katie Hoff

#39. I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

William Howard Taft

#40. Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

Serena Williams

#41. If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it, and I think it's a nice way to work, but I try to do the best I can and write what I like. I don't worry about it.

Randy Newman

#42. I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

Grant Hill

#43. Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

Danny Cipriani

#44. I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

Cameron Monaghan

#45. I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.

Eugenie Bouchard

#46. The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

Alfonso Soriano

#47. I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.

Tarvaris Jackson

#48. I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

Darius McCrary

#49. I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

Shakira

#50. I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you're aware of that person's vibe. You're trying to get inside of them.

Lenny Kravitz

#51. A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can.

Deron Williams

#52. I'm not perfect. And I don't have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it's okay if I still screw up.

Melissa Darnell

#53. There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.

Cat Power

#54. Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Anne Bancroft

#55. I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.

Joe Eszterhas

#56. I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

Carl Paladino

#57. Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference?

Twyla Tharp

#58. I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

Gerry Rafferty

#59. I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Mandy Patinkin

#60. What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on.

Bobby Allison

#61. I really don't know what I'm doing ... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#62. I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

Lionel Messi

#63. It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

Rickie Fowler

#64. I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

Shakira

#65. I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

Danny Bautista

#66. When I'm filming something, I quite forget that it's all still got to come together and be edited. I'm so engrossed in trying to do the best I can on a day to day basis that I forget that people will see it and judge it.

Yasmin Paige

#67. My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.

Hillary Clinton

#68. I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.

Katherine Jenkins

#69. I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Anthony Bourdain

#70. When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well ... it sucks for me.'

Lindsay Hartley

#71. I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.

Brandy Clark

#72. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

Hillary Clinton

#73. I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.

Robert David Hall

#74. I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I can't bear the thought of being without you as my lover, my best friend, my whole world....one day my wife, and my baby mama, then yes, I Love you, Love you!

S.E. Hall

#75. I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

Mos Def

#76. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#77. I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible."
"Did you kick their butts?"
He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone."
I laughed. "It's a figure of speech."
"To kick butts. Interesting.

Allison Van Diepen

#78. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

Boris Johnson

#79. I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

Denzel Washington

#80. The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

Edward Kitsis

#81. What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

Alan Hansen

#82. Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#83. The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

Sally Ride

#84. Ask yourself- what's the best thing that can happen- then go do it

Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#85. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Rosa Parks

#86. The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Chris Stapleton

#87. All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

Nathan Lane

#88. What I do is about living. It's about living the best life you can and enjoying the fullness of the life around you- from what you wear, to the way you live, to the way you love.

Ralph Lauren

#89. The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Russell Baker

#90. People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#91. Babe, I can't promise you that I'll always be perfect, but I'll do my straight best to try, and I'll make it my life's goal to always make sure you're happy. All you've got to do is marry me, and I'll do the rest.

Elle Casey

#92. Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.

Ian Ziering

#93. The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

Kathleen Battle

#94. The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

Jason Scott Lee

#95. I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Jason Schwartzman

#96. I'm aware the fans in the U.S. can be less forgiving ... I'll just have to do my best to please them.

Hideki Matsui

#97. I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Harry Truman

#98. I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Sam Altman

#99. I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Spike Lee

#100. When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

Dean Koontz