The Best You Can Quotes

#1. I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Colonel Sanders

#2. The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Scott Adams

#3. You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

Joel Osteen

#4. 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

#5. Sometimes the best you can do is try not to be one of the bastards

Vikki Wakefield

#6. There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

Harrison Ford

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Don't hesitate and second-guess yourself. Just be the best you can be in every step you take toward your goal.

Lorii Myers

#10. Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

John Wooden

#11. There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.

Suzanna Reeves

#12. Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Keith Henson

#13. 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

#14. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

Heather Hemmens

#15. To enjoy the beauty of life and the joy of your soul, serve, love, and give the best you can.

Debasish Mridha

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

John Wooden

#19. 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

#20. I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Rafer Johnson

#21. 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

#22. There are things we can fix and things we can't. I guess life is about figuring out which is which, and dealing with both the best you can.

Ruth Cardello

#23. 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

#24. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

John Wooden

#25. I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.

Nick Jonas

#26. 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

#27. Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

Usama Fayyad

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. To be perfect is to be doing the best you can under the circumstances you are in.

Stephen Robinson

#31. When there's not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!

Frank Zappa

#33. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Pete Rose

#34. You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Jason Mraz

#35. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

Doc Brown

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

Orison Swett Marden

#39. 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

#40. Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

Mike Ditka

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Let me get this thing straight, Inigo
we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.

William Goldman

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Be the best you can be for yourself!

Susan Marie Murdoch

#48. You can't make history all the time, Dougie.
Sometimes the best you can do is make money.

James Ellroy

#49. Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

Sylvia Day

#50. 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

#51. The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

Lauren Graham

#52. I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

Kathy Najimy

#53. I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Bill Parcells

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. No matter where you are in life, no matter what you've contributed to creating, no matter what's happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did

Louise Hay

#57. Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Kelli Williams

#58. Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

Gary Keller

#59. Life's random," he said. "The best you can do is pick up the pieces.

Kate Atkinson

#60. You have to be the best you can be with what you have.

Rick Hansen

#61. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Chuck Palahniuk

#62. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Gregory David Roberts

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#66. You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

Mario Andretti

#67. 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

#68. Only you know what you are doing - or not doing - to become the best you can be.

Jan Marie Mueller

#69. 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

#70. If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

George Horace Lorimer

#71. Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

John Wooden

#72. 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

#73. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

John Prine

#74. 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

#75. I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

Rebecca Ferguson

#76. Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Iyanla Vanzant

#77. I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can ... See things a little differently and whatnot.

Warren Christie

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

Ozwald Boateng

#81. It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

Mike White

#82. Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

Thomas Ligotti

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

Barry Bonds

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.

Cate Tiernan

#90. Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.

Valerie Plame

#91. If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#92. If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

Dirk Nowitzki

#93. If you come off the start in a final in fourth or fifth, realistically, the best you can probably do is a podium - squeeze second, third. The chance of you winning at any major race if you get cut off down the hill is pretty remote.

Tory Nyhaug

#94. I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Marilyn Monroe

#95. The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

Jeffrey Kluger

#96. Maybe you just do the best you can, 'cause you can't control what happens in the end.

Rob Buyea

#97. When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.

Nate Holland

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. If you are passionate about something, that will enable you to be the best you can be.

Tiffeny Milbrett