Doing Your Best Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.

  Mardy Grothe

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• Be kind today....to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.

  Ian Lawton

  Best Love, Love You, Good Friend

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• My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Mean, Advice, Luck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Men, Tragedy, Would Be

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• Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

  Liane Moriarty

  Right Now, Bits, Meant To Be

  Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.318, Penguin UK

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• People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.

  Raymond Loewy

  Support You, Long, People

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

  Robert Hillyer

  Failure, Imperfect World, Hands

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• You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

  Ethel Merman

  Jobs, Prove

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

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Noble, Deeds, Soil

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Jobs, Reason, Enough

  Song: It's My Job, Album: Coconut Telegraph, 1981

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• There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don't know how to do. Then there's the other impulse to try and earn a living. I want to be careful about not confusing those too much - not that those things can't have a healthy overlap. Plenty of people start out making work that isn't terribly commercial, and then make work that's more commercial but still good. You just want to watch out for that thing where you tell yourself that you're doing your best work when you're not.

  Andrew Bujalski

  People, Healthy, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Opposites, People

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• Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Giving, Community

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• I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.

  Amy Poehler

  Fall, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

  Seth Godin

  Long, Secret, Lists

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• There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Way, Vulnerable

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

  Nhat Hanh

  Future, Care, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Yoga is not about having the perfect positions, it's not about who's the best and who's the most flexible. A lot of people are saying to me 'I can't do yoga because I'm not flexible,' but that's exactly why you should do it. It's not about being flexible. It's not about who's the best. It's about doing your best on that particular day.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Yoga, People, Perfect

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's not about comparing yourself or judging yourself, it's about being in that moment and doing your best.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Yoga, Judging Yourself, May

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.

  Alan Armstrong

  Get Better, Left Behind, Behinds

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• 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.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Letting Go, Love You, Past

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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