Top 79 Anything Worthwhile Quotes
#1. I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
Mark Twain
#2. A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!
While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev
Tom Clancy
#3. Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.
Debbie Reynolds
#4. Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides.
Connie Willis
#5. It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#6. Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
Seamus Heaney
#7. Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.
Scott Adams
#8. It's about what you've got to put yourself through to make anything worthwhile. It's about going to the dark places and using what you find there.
Kevin Barry
#9. We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.
Sherry Thomas
#10. Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
David O. Russell
#11. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
#12. Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.
Donald Hall
#13. Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#14. You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.
Sherry Thomas
#15. The truth is that anything worthwhile we do in life demands effort.
Rosalie De Rosset
#16. You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
Robert Greene
#17. Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.
Crystal Paine
#19. We pay a tax to succeed at anything worthwhile. That tax is called dedication, and here's the most wonderful part. Once you pay it, once you truly dedicate yourself to something important, you'll find the price was worth it.
Steve Goodier
#21. If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
John Green
#22. I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Walter Chrysler
#25. I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Arthur Ashe
#26. You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.
Nashoda Rose
#27. Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.
Marita Golden
#28. You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself
Oprah Winfrey
#29. Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.
Joanne Van Leerdam
#30. Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
#31. Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road ... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.
Mike Nichols
#32. You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
#33. The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
#34. Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile
except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.
Ian Svenonius
#35. I like things clean, and I have a biannual clean-out of my apartment. I throw out raggedy things and things I never wear, and there's a Goodwill around the corner for anything worthwhile.
Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
#36. Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Jonathan Raban
#37. Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.
Oswald Chambers
#38. Anything worthwhile is opposed. Steven Pressfield (War of Art) calls this the Resistance.
Michael Hyatt
#39. This is about me being ready to succeed.
When I win in my mind, I truly win.
Anything worthwhile deserves some time.
I will do it this time! No excuses!
Lorii Myers
#40. Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
Vince Lombardi
#41. Everybody dies," I answer. "It's just a matter of when and whether you do anything worthwhile beforehand.
Ann Aguirre
#42. People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.
Michael Thomas Ford
#43. People who don't want to do anything that doesn't come to them immediately rarely learn anything worthwhile
Edward Burke
#44. I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.
Albert Einstein
#45. I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.
Trent Reznor
#46. I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
Robert Zemeckis
#47. Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
Elliott Carter
#48. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
Benjamin Jowett
#49. Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
John Wooden
#50. If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
Isabel Sanford
#51. I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.
I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world.
I refuse to let anything get in my way.
Randy Ingermanson
#52. There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
Boyd K. Packer
#53. I know that this time, the worst thing I can do is let go. And I won't be losing anything. Because it's the most selfish thing I could ever do - to allow myself to fall for someone worthwhile.
Kirsten Hubbard
#54. I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Edgar Winter
#55. Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.
Frederick Lenz
#56. Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.
Lucie Arnaz
#57. Anything I have ever done that was ultimately worthwhile, initially scare me to death!
Helen Keller
#58. My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.
William Powell
#59. How do I rate books on GoodReads?
1-star = avoid
2-star = meh
3-star = worthwhile read
anything 3-stars has something special
Brian Greiner
#60. Her words made her pause. She couldn't have anything that was truly worthwhile without fighting for it-her farm, her family, and perhaps even love
-Annalisa
Jody Hedlund
#61. The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
Richard Dawkins
#62. Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Jim Carrey
#63. There is nothing called as cheap patents. Anything cheap is not worthwhile.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#64. I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.
Kurt Fuller
#65. Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.
Jack Lemmon
#66. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
Arthur Ashe
#67. Like anything else worthwhile in life, a happy relationship takes some skill.
Laura Doyle
#68. People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.
Zach Braff
#69. Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
Kate Mosse
#70. I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
Vince Lombardi
#71. Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.
Ella Winter
#72. Anything great or worthwhile takes time to build.
Jimmy T.
#73. If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
Bear Bryant
#74. Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.
Richard Dawkins
#75. I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon ... Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.
Fred Hoyle
#76. Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.
Laurence Overmire
#77. What a tragic waste o engagement (selfies). Enjoy the moment. Do something more worthwhile with your time, anything. Stare out the window and think about life.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#78. I suspect that both astronomers were, yet again, bending over backwards to be polite: theologians have nothing worthwhile to say about anything else; let's throw them a sop and let them worry away at a couple of questions that nobody can answer and maybe never will.
Richard Dawkins
#79. I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
Clarence Darrow
