46 Quotes About Best-effort





  • Author Alain de Botton
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    Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

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  • Author Robert Foster Bennett
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    An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

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  • Author Anton Chekhov
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    Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

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  • Author Robert Farrar Capon
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    Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever.

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