Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer
312

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

Bob Nelson
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I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do. -Branch Rickey
279

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Gary Ryan Blair
276

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

W. Edwards Deming
244
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. -Og Mandino
227

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."

Jerry Seinfeld
227

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Dr. Smiley Blanton
218
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. -Joe Namath
211

No man fails who does his best.

Orison Swett Marden
196

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewing
195
All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. -Shania Twain
185

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas
178

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Knute Rockne
165
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. -John Wesley
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It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Casteneda
162

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
154
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly. -H. H. Munro
122

I want you to believe-I do believe-that you did everything in your power to prevent the final catastrophe.

Ernest Simpson
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