trying your best Quotes

“Ever since the spider had befriended him, he had done his best to live up to his reputation. When Charlotte’s web said SOME PIG, Wilbur had tried hard to look like some pig. When Charlotte’s web said TERRIFIC, Wilbur had tried to look terrific. And now that the web said RADIANT, he did everything possible to make himself glow.”

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”

“It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.”

“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”

“You don’t have to get it right all the time. You don’t have to do things like anyone else’s mom. You only have to care.”

“There’s nothing left except to try.”

“Push yourself. Don’t Settle.”

Can’t Do is like Don’t Care. Neither of them have a home.

“Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.”

“And you very small persons will not have to die if you make yourselves heard! *So come one, now, and TRY!*”

″*Everyone* seemed to be yapping or yipping! *Everyone* seemed to be beeping or bipping! But it *wasn’t enough,* all this ruckus and roar! He HAD to find someone to help him make more. He raced through each building! He searched floor-to-floor!”

“She had a theory that it was only on this condition that life was worth living; that one should be one of the best, should be conscious of a fine organization, should move in the realm of light, of natural wisdom, of happy impulse, of inspiration gracefully chronic.”

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.

The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best.

Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best.

“It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does.”

“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.”

“I realized that even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying.”

“How do I show her that I’m not the guy she thinks I am? How do I erase everything I’ve done and start over? Maybe I can’t. Maybe it just can not be done. But if I’ve learned one thing from Juli Baker, it’s that I’ve got to put my whole heart and soul into it and try.”

“Mr. Fox had not spoken for a long time. He had been sitting quite still, his eyes closed, not even hearing what the others were saying. Mrs. Fox knew that he was trying desperately to think of a way out. And now, as she looked at him, she saw him stir himself and get slowly to his feet.”

“Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder.”

“The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.”

“Promise yourself to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best.”

“I still couldn’t get over the fact that I was part of the team. Okay. Truth. There was the team, and there was me, and we were in the same room. But we weren’t quite a team. They appreciated the fact that I usually got the answers right but . . . lots of the preparation involved fast-and-furious, back-and-forth discussions, and I had trouble adding anything to what was being said—most of the time.”

“This was evil’s hour: we could not run from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.”

“Do you see that group of bushes? You need only to walk as far as those bushes.”

“I did everything I could to avoid being alone or having too much time to think.”

″... in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.”

“I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.”

“Although Nature had never intended him for a man of action, loyalty to Jennings demanded that he should try his best to become one.”

“It doesn’t matter if I win as long as I have fun!”

“Tomorrow I’ll be all these things or at least I’ll try my best.”