Do Something Worthwhile Quotes

#1. Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

Derek Walcott

#2. If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

Patrick Swayze

#3. I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

Piper Laurie

#4. I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

Patti Boyd

#5. Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#6. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

Albert Einstein

#7. There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

Alfred P. Sloan

#8. I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Tyrone Power

#9. I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

Damian Woetzel

#10. Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. My promise to life, 'I will make an effort to do something worthwhile in my lifetime'.

Sunita Chabra

#12. Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Brian Kernighan

#13. In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#15. I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

Chris Burke

#16. The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

Richard Feynman

#17. To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy

Bruce McLaren

#18. Just because you don't want to see something doesn't mean that it will go away. Do you think inhumanity doesn't exist if you pretend not to see it? Or maybe get too drunk to understand? We've forgotten the things that make life worthwhile.

Bethany Griffin

#19. 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

#20. What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Donald Fagen

#21. The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

James Salter

#22. The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

Andy Richter

#23. What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?

James C. Crumbaugh

#24. A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

Ana Castillo

#25. 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

#26. Roosevelt once said, "Do something every day that scares you." Continue to push yourself to do those things that scare you, darling. Take those risks and see where you land, for they are the very things that make this journey worthwhile.

Lori Nelson Spielman

#27. In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

Phyllis Bentley

#28. What you have to do is find something or someone that will make your surviving worthwhile. Find a cause that moves you. Find a woman who need you. Just fucking find something you can do to make the world a better place for at least one other person.

Kallypso Masters

#29. Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless

Tommy Wallach

#30. To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.

Nelson Mandela

#31. Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.

Marcus Aurelius

#32. 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

#33. Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

Octavia Butler

#34. 1. If something is worthwhile doing - do it well. Don't waste your and other's time.
2. Life is brief - never postpone forgiveness when in your power - it may set you free.

Danie Botha

#35. 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

#36. Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?

Tommy Wallach

#37. Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

Cennino Cennini

#38. There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#39. And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

Mark Rothko