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> [Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/be-true-to-the-best-you-know-this-is-your-high-ideal-if-you-do-your/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

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## More by Horatio Dresser

> [“The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/the-ideal-never-comes-today-is-ideal-for-him-who-makes-it-so/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/the-ideal-day-never-comes-today-is-ideal-for-him-who-makes-it-so/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [“There is an element in experience that usually eludes description. Some experiences can never be told. They are intimately a part of us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/there-is-an-element-in-experience-that-usually-eludes-description/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [“It is one thing to talk about "the power of silence" and another to be able to pause long enough to enjoy it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/it-is-one-thing-to-talk-about-the-power-of-silence-and-another-to-be/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/what-i-am-thinking-and-doing-day-by-day-is-resistlessly-shaping-my/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we know of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/when-we-pause-to-think-we-are-compelled-to-admit-the-existence-of/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/do-your-best-every-day-and-your-life-will-gradually-expand-into/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/be-true-to-the-best-you-know-this-is-your-high-ideal-if-you-do-your/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [“In deepest truth there is no "alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/in-deepest-truth-there-is-no-alone/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/what-i-am-thinking-and-doing-day-by-day-is-resistlessly-shaping-my-2/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [No one can live my life for me. If I am wise, I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/no-one-can-live-my-life-for-me-if-i-am-wise-i-shall-begin-today-to/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

> [No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatio-dresser/no-one-can-save-me-no-one-can-live-my-life-for-me-it-is-mine-for/)

[Horatio Dresser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatio-dresser/)

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