Doing Your Best Quotes - Page 2

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivational, Learning, Reality

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• Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Confidence, Reality

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Excellence

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

  Marie Corelli

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Kids

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiring, Success, Responsibility

  "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein".

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never settle for anything less than your best.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Winning, Perfection

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2015

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• What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

  Mike Melvill

  Dream, Want, Can Do

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Excellence

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Wisdom, Time, Stress

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
  Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.
  Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

  Debbi Fields

  Positive, Business, Fear

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The best is the enemy of the good.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Military, Learning

  Letter to Duc de Richelieu, 18 June 1744. Although this saying is now associated with Voltaire, he is obviously quoting an Italian proverb here. The French form, which he used later, is Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

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