Proverbs & cultures

Doing Your Best Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs

Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.

What I do today is important because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Dale CarnegieAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Christian D. LarsenAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When you reach the top, keep climbing.
ProverbTraditional attribution
God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.
African-American proverbTraditional attribution
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
William FaulknerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Zig ZiglarAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
Stephen KaggwaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Successful people aren’t born that way.
Author UnknownTraditional attribution
Little by little one walks far.
Peruvian proverbTraditional attribution
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae WestAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma GandhiAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah WinfreyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
Mike MelvilleAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
Gary Ryan BlairAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
Anne FrankAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Attributed in the original GADEL collection
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter BagehotAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell ThomasAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Doing your own thing” is a generous act.
Barbara SherAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance.
Ralph MarstonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do.
Dale TurnerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Go out and change the world.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke EllingtonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanual KantAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The greatest force in the world is a positive idea.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
Original collection & source

Original title: Doing Your Best Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs to Cheer You Up

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Only short selections are republished here. The archived original may include longer passages and unverified attributions.

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