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• Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Done, Resigned

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can.

  Wangari Maathai

  Animal, Bombarded By, May

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• One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Quality, Doe

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

  Peter Costello

  Jobs, Cutting, Errors

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• If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Needs, Demand, Want

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• The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

  Tom Clancy

  World, Better Place, Presses

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.218, Penguin

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• I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

  Sarah Dessen

  Circumstances, I Can

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.350, Penguin

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• Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light.

  Tina Fey

  Light, Skin Color, Feminist

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• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hope, Motivation, Fear

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• Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Dark, Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Wind, Differences

  "Living the Abundant Life" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. January 2012.

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• There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

  Anne Tyler

  True Life, May, Life Is

  Anne Tyler (2001). “Back when We Were Grownups: A Novel”, Knopf

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• Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

  Ursula Vernon

  Hurt, Fall, Hard Work

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• But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

  Terry Goodkind

  Ifs And, What If, Important

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.181, Head of Zeus

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• For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

  Bo Schembechler

  Jobs, Opportunity, Differences

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• I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

  Lou Holtz

  People, Goal, Effort

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• We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Knows, Pure

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• Frank had decided that whatever his fate was, he wouldn’t worry about it. He would just do the best he could to help his friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, Worry, Helping

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• On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.

  Naoki Higashida

  Done, Want, Way

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• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

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• Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

  James Cash Penney

  Running, Jobs, Giving

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• In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Religion, Wicked

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Hitchens vs Blair”, p.10, Random House

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• Everything I do is unfabulous. Im the most normal person. I love walking everywhere, and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people.

  Ashley Benson

  Jobs, Wall, Vintage

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• 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

  Children, Philosophy, Life Is

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• Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

  Arthur Ashe

  Racism, Black History, African American

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