Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what…

— Frederick Lenz

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

— Seth Godin

With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead…

— Frederick Lenz

If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.

— Charlie Trotter

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Success is a process for all of us, and as long as you are making consistent progress towards your goals - sincerely giving your…

— Hal Elrod

You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

— Danielle LaPorte

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking…

— Anton Chekhov

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

— Elgin Baylor

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

— Nido R Qubein

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've…

— Dalai Lama

“It is impossible to give your best effort without mindfulness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts… I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have…

— William Westmoreland