Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

I do my best, and that's all I can do.

God help those who do not help themselves.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our Heavenly Father asks only that we do the best we can—that we work according to our full capacity, however great or small that may be.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

The world meets nobody half way.

It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.