Doing Your Best Quotes - Page 4

• To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Success, Happy, Enjoy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.28, Penguin

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• One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

  Catherine the Great

  Doe, Do The Best

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• If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.

  Candice Accola

  Song, Character, Successful

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• The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

  Peggy Fleming

  Goal, Should, Enjoy

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• Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.

  Luis Tiant

  Heart, Perfect, Not Good Enough

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• There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

  Max Lucado

  Maturity, Differences, Excellence

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

  Seth Godin

  Iphone, Data, Thread

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• When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.

  Nick Kroll

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

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• God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  God, Letting Go, Dream

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that's not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and not giving up. We all face a moment in a race or in a competition in which we want to give up. We can either give in and not keep pushing, or we can charge forward and work through it.

  Lisa Rainsberger

  Softball, Sports, Giving Up

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• There is nothing more perfect than doing your best.

  Wes Fesler

  Perfect, Effort

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• Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

  Randy Anderson

  Choices, Excellence, Knows

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• Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Writing, Care, Chance

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• When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Moving, Self, Creating

  "Jennifer Lopez Is Our October Cover Girl!". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 3, 2013.

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• Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.

  Kristin Cashore

  Horse, Ruins, Graceling

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.435, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Dream, Grateful, Passion

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• If you try to do your best there is no failure.

  Mike Farrell

  Fall, Kids, Hard Work

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• People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Kids, Hard Work, People

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• In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.

  Mother Teresa

  Book, Curves, Hands

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• Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

  David O. McKay

  Lord, Duty

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• A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Leadership, Know Me, Knows

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• Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you're doing what you want to do is probably when you'll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they'll pay you for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Desire, Hobbies

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• The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Real, Leader

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 14, 2011

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• My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

  Michelle Rhee

  Growing Up, Numbers, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

  Laurence Olivier

  Perfection, Excellence, Excuse

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