I don’t know the formula for success or happiness.
But I think “doing your best” is definitely one of the ingredients.
Not many people are putting their heart and soul into what they’re doing.
How come they expect to get the best?
Not many people keep raising the bar for their performance.
Doing something well is never good enough.
So… do your best… push for more.. and I guarantee that you will be surprised about what you can achieve.
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It is not the critic who counts.
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
.. or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause.
Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls …
… who know neither victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt
I’ve always tried to do my best on the ball field.
I can’t do any more than that.
I always try to give one hundred percent;
and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.
~ Jesse Barfield (American baseball player)
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately;
the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
~ George Santayana
I am only one; but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do
~ Helen Keller
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson