Top 100 Do The Best You Can Quotes
#1. If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
William Feather
#2. Sometimes you have to play like it's a little bit warmer, which is hard when you can't feel your face. You just try and do the best you can and make sure that you become really good friends with wardrobe, so that they give you all sorts of hand warmers and body warmers.
Colin Hanks
#3. If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
Helen Gurley Brown
#4. You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.
Gwen Hunter
#5. Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
Loretta Lynn
#6. Fang is not the huggiest person in the world - he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which
James Patterson
#7. You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.
Don Shula
#8. Maybe you just do the best you can, 'cause you can't control what happens in the end.
Rob Buyea
#9. If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
Dirk Nowitzki
#10. You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.
Miranda Lambert
#11. I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day sleep comes easily for the dollar that was earned honestly. It was a lesson instilled by my parents. It was a lesson that I have always followed and found to be quite accurate.
John-Talmage Mathis
#12. My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
#13. You have haters everywhere, you have doubters everywhere. Just keep it moving, do what you do, do the best you can possibly do, and just be appreciative as the where you are and where God has taken you to.
Patrice Lovely
#14. You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#16. An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
Bernie Glassman
#17. Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
Regina Brett
#18. Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.
Larry Holmes
#19. Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.
Noel Coward
#20. I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.
Anthony Bourdain
#21. 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
#22. Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better
Iyanla Vanzant
#23. 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
#24. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
John Prine
#25. 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
#26. You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.
Mario Andretti
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. When there's not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. If you're a MOM who has no idea what you're doing, but you do the best you can with whatever gets thrown your way every single day ... YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT!
Tanya Masse
#47. Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
Jack Nicklaus
#48. I try my best to eat healthy the majority of the time so that I feel good and have more energy. I am so passionate about eating healthily, I am actually certified in nutrition. I try my best to eat organic whenever possible, but it's important not to be too strict about it. Just do the best you can.
Miranda Kerr
#49. You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.
Nic Pizzolatto
#50. Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#51. You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.
Reese Witherspoon
#52. The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
Tom Clancy
#53. You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
#54. If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.
Joe Torre
#55. Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#56. Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.
Anne Tyler
#57. Do the best you can ... enjoy the present ... rest satisfied with what you have.
Seneca The Younger
#58. I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
Sam Rockwell
#59. Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?
Lou Holtz
#60. What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.
Rosie Batty
#61. 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
#62. Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.
Steve Maraboli
#63. Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.
Greg Rucka
#64. Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
Alan Ball
#65. Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Chris Evert
#66. 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
#67. Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.
Jennifer Weiner
#68. Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.
Dandi Daley Mackall
#69. I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.
Mick Ralphs
#71. There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#72. Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
Sally Hawkins
#73. Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
John Wooden
#74. Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road ... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.
Mike Nichols
#76. Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.
Roger Craig Smith
#77. Each environment is different, each job is different, and each realm of creativity that they give you is different. You try to do the best you can and put as much time into it as you can, but different jobs have different circumstances come about.
Michael Rapaport
#78. Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
Arthur Ashe
#79. Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Will Rogers
#80. You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.
Chael Sonnen
#81. When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Flann O'Brien
#82. You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.
Robert B. Parker
#83. All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.
Blair Underwood
#84. There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
Anne Tyler
#85. Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.
James Cash Penney
#86. You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.
Sarah Dessen
#87. Do the best you can with what you've got where you are.
John C. Stipa
#88. You don't need wealth or position or power to make a difference. You just need to do the best you can with what you have where you are. And if you are faithful in Babylon, God will bless you in Jerusalem.
Mark Batterson
#89. God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks.
Clint Eastwood
#90. Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.
Bryce Harper
#91. We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
Will Rogers
#92. You just do the best you can with what you've got ... and sometimes magic strikes.
Sally Field
#93. I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
Conrad Hilton
#94. When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.
Gene Simmons
#96. All one can do is live the life that God gave you, and you know, you just do the best you can. And if somebody likes you or doesn't like you, that's really, in many ways, something you have no control over.
Hillary Clinton
#97. I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.
Brittany Howard
#98. I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife ... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
Candice Olson
#99. Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#100. Do the best you can and God will give you credit for the rest. He's a pretty smart guy.
Michelle Rathore
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