“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”– Elizabeth Taylor “I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.”– Jesse Jackson “We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld