Top 100 The Best You Can Do Quotes
#1. Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
Alan Ball
#2. The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.
Woody Allen
#3. You haven't done your best yet because you haven't seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven't seen where you can be yet. If you see, your attitude, thought and tactics towards life will definitely change
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#4. When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.
Tammara Webber
#5. If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.
Maya Angelou
#6. As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig
#7. Well, if it's the best you can do, I suppose you must
C.S. Lewis
#8. With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.
Jennifer Westfeldt
#9. Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.
Megan McCafferty
#12. I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
Marian Wright Edelman
#13. She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#14. The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.
Gene Simmons
#15. The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
Gary Keller
#16. Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.
Tom Brady
#17. The best you can do is to take care of your life. No one is going to do it for you.
Art Hochberg
#18. You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
Bruno Bettelheim
#19. Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.
Meg Wolitzer
#21. It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
Wallace Stegner
#22. The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.
Tony Horwitz
#23. It's impossible to own a Norin, no matter how many cages you wrap around them. We will always follow our own star. The best you can do is to hope you've pinned your heart to the same constellation.
Gwynn White
#24. The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.
Dave Eggers
#25. Responding with eyes filled with introspection and a soft, slow voice, Cayla confessed, "I don't. I don't have all the answers. But I cling desperately to the Hand of the One who does. Because sometimes that's just the best you can do.""
"Come What May"-Cayla to Abbie-
Laura A. Diaz
#26. The best you can do is be honest with the people you love and hope that they'll care enough about you to listen.
Sara Shepard
#27. Sometimes the best you can do is try not to be one of the bastards
Vikki Wakefield
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.
Usama Fayyad
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
Jason Mraz
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. You can't make history all the time, Dougie.
Sometimes the best you can do is make money.
James Ellroy
#37. Life's random," he said. "The best you can do is pick up the pieces.
Kate Atkinson
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Henry Miller
#42. All you can do is the best you can do.
Paula Abdul
#43. You may not walk an others path in place of them, the best you can do is show them the start.
Markus Peterson
#44. Emme pulled on Cole's hand. "Why are they crying?"
Her uncle bent down. "Well, sometimes when all your dreams come true? The best you can do is cry. It's happy, not sad.
Debra Anastasia
#45. You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.
Alex Kurtzman
#46. What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.
Mike Farrell
#47. You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.
Michael Nava
#49. It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'
Mike White
#50. How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
Larry Page
#51. Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.
Cate Tiernan
#52. War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes ... missing parts ... The best you can do is pick up the pieces that are left and start to build again. It'll never be the way it was before.
Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming later this year!)
Bruce Jenvey
#53. You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
Seymour Papert
#54. I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
Mayim Bialik
#55. The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered - and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.
Esther Hicks
#56. 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
#57. If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.
Joel Osteen
#58. People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?
Sarah Skilton
#59. You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do.
Max Bemis
#60. Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.
Alan Furst
#61. Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Charlie Trotter
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.
J. Michael Straczynski
#65. Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#66. One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
Marco Arment
#67. What are you doing?"
"I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me.
"What's that lump inside?"
"A sock egg."
"A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs."
"Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters.
Polly Shulman
#68. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
Lee Child
#69. Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.
Bill Raftery
#70. 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. You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.
K. Martin Beckner
#72. Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they've nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
J.K. Rowling
#73. When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley
#74. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal
#75. To get the best out of life here ... Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.
Philip Pullman
#76. The best thing you can do to come up with a lot of new ideas is to learn a lot of old ideas. Because new ideas are just connections between old ideas, the more ideas you have in your head, the more connections you'll be able to create between them.
Yevgeniy Brikman
#77. I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.
Julianne Hough
#78. All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
J. Michael Straczynski
#79. 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
#80. The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.
Manny Trillo
#81. Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.
Virgil Green
#82. I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
Craig Newmark
#83. Now that you know the wishing ways, you'll feel the wishes around you. They'll make you itchy, 'cause you know you can do something about them, but that ain't always the best idea.
Sarah Zettel
#84. Do the best you can and God will give you credit for the rest. He's a pretty smart guy.
Michelle Rathore
#85. And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you're just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you'll go to the very best school you can get into and earn the best grades you can.
Zack Love
#86. I've got a great dislike of reunions. It's a little like trying to go back and relive the best parts of your life, but you can't do it. Nothing is ever the same.
Eric Burdon
#87. All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.
Joe Abercrombie
#88. What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.
Andy Summers
#89. It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.
Jamie Babbit
#90. The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.
Jean Nouvel
#91. One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
L'Wren Scott
#92. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
CM Punk
#93. I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.
William Monahan
#94. There's what you're forced to do, there's what you choose, and everything else - most things - are a mix. At best, you'll spend your life trying not to get hurt, but trying not to do the hurting, either. You won't always come through, but it's the best anyone can do. It's the trying I'd call good.
Alexandra Duncan
#95. I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.
Curtis Joseph
#96. Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it.
David Carradine
#97. You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.
Murray Bowen
#98. The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept ... stuff happens.
Carlos Condit
#99. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos.
Rebecca Traister
#100. You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.
Peter Morgan
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