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Quotes About Effort

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.
~ Jackie Stewart
There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.
~ Sebastian Vettel
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
~ Magic Johnson
Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
~ Robin Williams
Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!
~ Eunice Kennedy Shriver
One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.
~ Catherine the Great
If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.
~ Dirk Nowitzki
It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.
~ Wayne Gretzky
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
~ Richard Burton
Do the best you can and never stop.
~ Unknown
Doing your best is more important than being the best.
~ Shannon Miller
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.
~ Owen Wilson
You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.
~ Walter Hagen
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
~ Mike Farrell
You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.
~ Nick Cassavetes
No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
~ Michael Jackson
All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.
~ Mos Def
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
~ Jack Nicklaus
You don't have to be the best .... But, you have to be YOUR best.
~ Unknown
I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
~ Seneca the Younger