Top 100 The Best We Can Quotes
#1. Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do.
Christie Golden
#2. People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.
Cristina Henriquez
#3. We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best we can. We show up. We strive for gratitude, and try not to be such babies.
Anne Lamott
#5. The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
Loretta Swit
#6. We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.
Tsem Tulku
#8. In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.
Robert Bateman
#9. She shook her head. "You're insane."
"We're human, Cass. That's all. We're all kids playing grown-up. We do the best we can."
[Lucas to Cassandra]
Joey W. Hill
#10. As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.
James Hunter
#11. We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.
Demi Lovato
#12. 'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.
Anson Williams
#13. It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
Jamais Cascio
#14. Life isn't kind, and we rarely get what we want out of it. We do the best we can, and we keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Katherine Allred
#15. You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.
Anne Lamott
#16. Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman
#17. The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.
Lisi Harrison
#18. This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#19. I don't need a happily ever after, J, I just need the ever after part. The adjective can be whatever. Up and down ever after, sometimes rocky ever after, crazy ever after - I don't give a shit. As long as you stick around, we'll just do the best we can, day after day.
Mary Calmes
#20. There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
Jessica Valenti
#21. We have the ability to write the blueprint for our own goals, and decide how we want to pursue them. If we allow others to do it for us, we won't achieve our full potential to be the best we can be.
Ellen J. Barrier
#22. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#23. Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#24. We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your best, but it's my best. The fact is we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our best, we experience a peace.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#25. Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.
Frank Drake
#26. The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.
Sara Davidson
#27. Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself.
Sophie Jordan
#28. An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
Sharon Salzberg
#29. Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
Stephen Covey
#30. Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can't blame yourself forever.
Lara Adrian
#31. Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.
Jo Brand
#32. We all just do the best we can with what we've go. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it ruins everything
C.J. Redwine
#33. In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
Will Self
#35. When the best we can do is to call ourselves the least worst, it should be taken as a sign that we are much worse than we might realize.
Mattathias Schwartz
#36. Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.
Ann Benjamin
#37. Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
Fred Rogers
#38. [I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.
Kate Messner
#39. Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
#40. However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.
Roberta Bondi
#41. Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
Calvin Coolidge
#42. The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.
Terry Goodkind
#43. I don't mean religious faith. I mean faith in our own abilities. We have to do the best we can with the talents we have, Geordie. The future is too unpredictable for anxiety.
James Runcie
#45. The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
Alexander Hamilton
#46. Sometimes in life, we need to be pushed to conquer our fears, challenge our nightmares, realized our dreams and achieved our goals, in order to be the best we can be. - CG Murphy
Courtney Murphy
#48. With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
Georges St-Pierre
#49. Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle.
She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have.
I guess that makes sense.
Bill Watterson
#50. And that's the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.
Ben Monopoli
#51. Regret is not the same as guilt. It is expressed by: 'I can't believe I did that. It's not like me. This is not how I am! How could I do such a thing?' It means to see ourselves as the best we can be, and to be disappointed in not living up to that.
Yael Shahar
#52. No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley
#53. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.
Anna Quindlen
#54. What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing
a very hard thing ... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?
Robin McKinley
#55. Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.
Andre Agassi
#56. We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
Richard Adams
#57. But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
Kenneth Oppel
#58. I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.
Whitney Otto
#59. Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is ... For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
Hillary Clinton
#60. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier that is about the best we can do.
Roger Ebert
#61. 'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.
Kris Holden-Ried
#62. We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves ... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more ...
Jay Woodman
#63. Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.
Grace Gealey
#64. We can sabotage our days by imagining tomorrow will be better; or we can seize our moments by forgiving ourselves when we struggle and doing the best we can right now.
Lori Deschene
#65. Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Zig Ziglar
#66. Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone's cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.
Darrell Calkins
#67. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
Kate DiCamillo
#68. Life's not easier for any of us. The best we can do is choose to get through it with the right people.
Lauren Layne
#69. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#70. Is maybe the best we can do?" Callahan asked. "Yeah," Eddie said. "For the time being, I guess it is.
Stephen King
#71. We really can't change the world. We really can't change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!
Ammon Hennacy
#72. I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?
Nick Lachey
#73. We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.
Lisa Mangum
#74. There. But then I change my mind. I think of us poor, old human beings doing the best we can, struggling with being either too much of who we are or too little.
Deb Caletti
#75. When we set out to do the best we can do, it is inevitable that great opportunity finds us because we are doing what truly makes us happy. We're in alignment and ready for the opportunities that life puts in our path.
Josh Hinds
#76. We're all doing the best we can and sometimes it is not that good.
Maria Bamford
#77. We don't get all better; we don't fix everything that's broken. We just learn how to work around the broken bits. How to do the best we can with what we have, and who we are.
Lilah Pace
#78. That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.
Greg Norman
#79. Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
Nicholas Sparks
#80. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.
Nikki Sixx
#81. With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
Barbara Boxer
#82. Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.
Sharon Salzberg
#83. We all have our battles. We get past them the best we can by putting one foot in front of the other. Looking back doesn't do anything but make it hurt a little more.
Harper Sloan
#84. When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.
Greg Boyle
#85. We don't get to pick our kin. The best we can hope for is to survive them ...
Jeff Lindsay
#86. No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.
Diana Peterfreund
#87. We all must deal with our shadows the best we can. No one can conquer them for us.
Anna Lee Huber
#88. Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
Margaret Thatcher
#89. Arista," the wizard said, "sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chickens don't swim. We all do the best we can with the tools we have, but at some point you have to ask yourself where the tools came from.
Michael J. Sullivan
#90. Any judge knows there are many kinds of justice - for instance, ideal justice as opposed to the best-we-can-do justice, which is what we end up with in making so many of our decisions.
Louise Erdrich
#91. I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.
Anne Ursu
#92. Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse ... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
Rick Riordan
#94. Abigail read in Reader's Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. Like the way we live our lives, she thought. Bumble through doing the best we can and hoping that some benevolence keeps us from crashing.
Chris Abani
#95. By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!"
"There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy.
"Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.
Lloyd Alexander
#96. Alas, some of those crackpots will only be eliminated by something lethal, such as a firing squad. The best we can do unless you want to invoke such lethal force is the segregation - the quarantine, perhaps - of those that pollute the hive mind with their irrational gibberings
Andrew Williams
#97. I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
Byron Katie
#98. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.
Alice Hoffman
#99. That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.
Amanda Schull
#100. There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.
Frederick Lenz
