Trying Our Best Quotes:

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Trying Our Best

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

- Jean-Bertrand Aristide

source: "Actor, Activist Danny Glover: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide “Mystified” at US Resistance to His Return". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.

topic: Thinking, People, Waiting, Rubble, Debris

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

- Gisele Bundchen

topic: Mother, Believe, Thinking, Trying Our Best

Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.” “If you had let me finish,” Skulduggery said, slightly annoyed, “you would have heard me say, ‘Come out, we’re not going to hurt you’. Idiot.” “He probably wouldn’t have said idiot,” Valkyrie told the sobbing man. “We’re trying our best to be nice.” The man blinked through his tears, and looked up. “You’re... You’re not going to kill me?” “No, we’re not,” Valkyrie said gently, “so long as you wipe your nose right now.

- Derek Landy

source: Derek Landy (2010). “Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 5)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

topic: Hurt, Nice, Men, Trying Our Best

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

- Craig Newmark

topic: Running, Thinking, Trying, Trying Our Best, Business Environment

It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

- John C. Danforth

source: "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 189, September 19, 2006.

topic: Knowing, Inspire, Trying, Trying Our Best

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

- Stephen Malkmus

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Criticism, Progress, Trying Our Best