(119 quotes found)
“If a man has done his best, what else is there?”
General George S. Patton
“Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will”
Winston Churchill
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”
E. E. Cummings
“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”
Albert Einstein
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.”
Bob Nelson
“If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.”
Anita Roddick
“If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”
Dorothy Parker