Quotes of: Do-your-best Keyword

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Ghosn

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Jeffrey Jones

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

Ivan Lendl

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Sometimes it all becomes too much. Your body and mind will just give way. Part of you may want to blissfully fade into nothing, but you never do. After a while all the memories and emotions make you shut down but never fully disappear—it’s safer ...

Essence

But more than that, if you ally yourself with people who are prepared to fight to make a difference, then your life will always be in danger. I don't think it's fair to ever blame the person who makes the stand. Because the Doctor's so old, because h...

The Brilliant Book Of Doctor Who 2012

Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in he...

Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians

Oh r-really? Do t-tell?” I quirked an eyebrow back at him. “Well, usually it’s best to take your shoes and socks off before you step in the stream, better balance on an uneven surface. Also, you avoid that unpleasant squelchy feeling when you w...

I Belong to the Earth

Oh r-really? Do t-tell?” I quirked an eyebrow back at him.  “Well, usually it’s best to take your shoes and socks off before you step in the stream, better balance on an uneven surface. Also, you avoid that unpleasant squelchy feeling when ...

I Belong to the Earth

Oh r-really? Do t-tell?” I quirked an eyebrow back at him.   “Well, usually it’s best to take your shoes and socks off before you step in the stream, better balance on an uneven surface. Also, you avoid that unpleasant squelchy feeling when...

I Belong to the Earth

Don't be scared," Willa Mae said. I looked at her. "Aren't you scared?" Willa Mae looked at me and said, "Shoot. Only thing I'm afraid of is that I'm going to do something I'll regret." "Being scared is just one more thing to turn into what you want ...

Sources of Light

Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face. Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we're led to believe that struggling is a bad thi...

Danny Dreyer

The Operative: I already know you will not see reason. Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: The Alliance wanted to show me reason, they shouldn't have sent an assassin. The Operative: I have a warship in deep orbit, Captain. We locked onto Serenity's pulse beacon...

Serenity

Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one or two is enough to make you someone special. Ask a music fan who the best guitarist of all time is, and while one group insis...

Ashly Lorenzana

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The last photograph you had of your mother? A birthday ...

The Storyteller

If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn't be trying to go anywhere else. If you could know the perfection of time and space, You would slow each moment down To drain e...

Jacob Nordby

When you have done your best and still failed, use Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

A Dad After God's Own Heart

Not too bad, reminds me of some kind of meat dip, best if you close your eyes and pretend it's something else.

Fearless

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

Books Burn Badly

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly