Tried My Best Quotes

#1. I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

Bob Moore

#2. I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Len Goodman

#3. I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way

Giovanna Fletcher

#4. I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

Harry S. Truman

#5. Well, screw him. I'd tried my best.

Charlaine Harris

#6. I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.

Marvin Hagler

#7. I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

Nuruddin Farah

#8. Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes ...

Calvin Trillin

#9. I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

Pat Nixon

#10. My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

Jenson Button

#11. I don't really care, this is what I want to do. And if I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best.

Brent Schlender

#12. I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

Vinny Testaverde

#13. I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.

Janet Reno

#14. So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope's twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care.

S. Jae-Jones

#15. All I know is I've tried my best.

Tiger Woods

#16. Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies.

Anthony Liccione

#17. I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors.

Jethro Tull

#18. God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

D.B.C. Pierre

#19. My life has been filled with countless mistakes, but also success. I have been a coward at some points but brave at others. I have loved and been loved; I have failed to love and to accept love. Above all else I have tried my best, every step of the way.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#20. I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

Rhys Darby

#21. I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.

Peter King

#22. It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

Ger Duany

#23. Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

John Schlesinger

#24. But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

Garth Stein

#25. I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Harry Caray

#26. I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Neymar

#27. I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.

Rajeev Shukla

#28. I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

Jill Stuart

#29. If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Pele

#30. Give it your best shot. Go for it. If it's what you really want to do, go for it. Even if you don't make it, you will never look back and have regrets. You can always say, "Hey, I went for it. I tried my hardest. It was an awesome experience."

Carmen Rasmusen

#31. My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

Maria Shriver

#32. They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.

Natan Sharansky

#33. Once upon a time, I tried to have dinner with my best friend, and the apocalypse happened.

Chloe Neill

#34. Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.

Tahir Shah

#35. What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.

Hillary Clinton

#36. You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn't let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that's because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself.

A Meredith Walters

#37. President Obama. He is the man. I've tried the rest, and he is the best. My dream is for him to appoint me to be the Secretary of Humor. My first act will be to make whatever Larry the Cable Guy is doing illegal.

Andy Kindler

#38. I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

Emma Roberts

#39. If you live in Milton, you must learn to have a brave heart, Miss Hale.'
'I would do my best,' said Margaret rather pale. 'I do not know
whether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid I
should be a coward.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#40. I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

Cristiano Ronaldo

#41. I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent the great artists that created him. At the same time, as an actor you have to find what you relate to in the character and make it your own, and hopefully people respond to it.

Daniel Cudmore

#42. At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

Olena Vitrychenko

#43. At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise ... I die for them.

Stephenie Meyer

#44. I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.

Judith Warner

#45. I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

Gil Gerard

#46. Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich ... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.

Andy Roddick

#47. I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded.

Andriy Shevchenko

#48. For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.

Walter Cronkite

#49. I tried hard. I gave it my best.'
That's the enthusiasm we don't need, the sort that doesn't produce results. The more you're cornered, the more important it is ...
... to make your decisions based on reality and not your personal feelings.
- Takano to Onodera

Shungiku Nakamura

#50. If you've ever tried to move from L.A. back to New York, that's a pretty hard move. You forget how cramped things are in New York. You forget how dirty it is in New York. But, it's been the best move of my life, not necessarily for my career, but for my soul.

Anson Mount

#51. They say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was pitch black by the time I arrived at the Marriott. However I still had a few bullets left for my deadbeat uncle that tried to stab me in the back.

Angel Ramon Medina

#52. I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

George Best

#53. My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

Hans Rosling

#54. In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

Charlaine Harris

#55. I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

David Levithan

#56. It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.

Vijay Singh

#57. I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.

John Green

#58. Impossible is just the shit nobody's tried yet," Beckett shot back. "My balls are way too big not to hope for the best.

Debra Anastasia

#59. I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.

Angela Ahrendts

#60. If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

Peter Welch

#61. I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Claire Danes

#62. I've always tried to be independent. It's just my personality. I've always been the type to motivate the camp. I've always wanted to be the fuel for something - for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I'm doing.

Rita Ora

#63. Did Ellis hurt like I did my first time? I hoped not. I tried desperately to prep him as best I could, but there was still no guarantee that today he wouldn't feel the repercussions, despite my careful planning. To his advantage, and to the detriment of my ego, I was on the low side of average.

Wade Kelly

#64. My mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

#65. I took another bite of my ice cream as the girl tried to stop the fight. Ice cream and a fight? Best mall trip ever.

Aileen Erin

#66. I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures ...

Catherynne M Valente

#67. 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

#68. Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Sheryl Sandberg

#69. So I tried to activate my glutes as best I could, in between, but ... they never stayed activated.

Tiger Woods

#70. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

#71. And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake."
She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt."
I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks.

Alyxandra Harvey

#72. No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

Reese Witherspoon

#73. The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

Denis Leary

#74. I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

Donald Ray Pollock

#75. I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Ann-Margret

#76. I've certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with 'Battlestar' ... I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me.

Grace Park

#77. I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!

Alex Trebek

#78. I always tried to do the best for my kid.

Sofia Vergara

#79. My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.

Robyn Carr

#80. I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

Cindy Margolis

#81. Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Nikola Tesla

#82. So I have also tried to be honest. And the best way I have found to be honest is to tell you my story: a journey in and out of Calvinism. As Chesterton once confessed, sometimes you have to be egotistical if you want to be sincere.3 In this reminiscing, something became

Austin Fischer

#83. When I let my mind wander back that far, what I see is how hard we tried to be our best for one another. In

George Hodgman

#84. My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

Cathy Guisewite

#85. Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.
No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

L. Frank Baum

#86. I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

Chloe Sevigny

#87. I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

Zooey Deschanel

#88. The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.

LeBron James

#89. I tried to give him my best you're-so-sexy-and-I'm-impressed look, but I don't think it worked.

Jessica Verday

#90. If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Russell Crowe

#91. I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Jesse Barfield

#92. Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

John Wooden