“I did my best, and let me urge you to do your best, too. Isn't it the least we can do for one another?”
Obituaries (1979)
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Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Context: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
“You're doing the best you can, right? Isn't that what we always tell each other?”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Gabby Parker, Chapter 19, p. 227
2000s, The Choice (2007)
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 46
Todd Snider (1966) American singer
Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number 10).
The Excitement Plan (2009)
“Do your best and let God do the rest.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 255
“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
Source: As quoted in US-Soviet Relations : The First 50 Years WNET TV {17 April 1984)