Doing one's best

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Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Topic

Going for it Doing one's best

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 5.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part Two, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 5.

You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump

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Topic

Doing one's best

Speaker

Mrs. Gump

Actor

Sally Field

Source

Forrest Gump

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Doing one's best Second place Self-improvement

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 39.