Doing Something Worthwhile Quotes

#1. Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

St. Jerome

#2. You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

Colonel Sanders

#3. To me, this one brief moment proved to be my most meaningful memory at the park because it symbolized what we mean to people: We are not a cure for cancer, we are not going to save the world, but if we can make people that happy for a few hours or for a day, then we are doing something worthwhile.

Jack Lindquist

#4. The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. - GEORGE LUCAS

George Lucas

#5. We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

#6. Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.

Beatrice Sparks

#7. The secret is just to not give up hope. It's very hard not to, because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. And you just have to hang in through that." ~ George Lucas

Vanessa Moore

#8. He would, he realized, find them or spend the rest of his life looking, and this might not take so long. So be it. All he had ever needed, in that desert or this, was some say in how it went, some reassurance that he would go doing something worthwhile. A sappy idea, but not therefore false.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#9. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Wilfred Grenfell

#10. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#12. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

#13. Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement. In our humanity we are driven to survive, and to be loved makes the living worthwhile.

Sarah Tun

#14. Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.

Dustin Cruz

#15. It was a gift. You were a gift. A gift that made my life worthwhile. A gift that made life fun. A gift that filled me with music. A gift that filled me with love. A gift that inspired me to live on the bright side.

Kim Holden

#16. Government, too, must have qualities of the spirit," Collins told the crowd. "Truth and justice and fairness and unselfish service are some of these. Without these qualities there is no worthwhile

Gilbert King

#17. It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.

Mary Slessor

#18. I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Edmund Hillary

#19. Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.

Amy Carmichael

#20. Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

William Goldman

#21. I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

Chuck Feeney

#22. It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

Marita Golden

#24. 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

#25. Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

Joseph Pilates

#26. Love is wonderful and worthwhile and enriching but it should never be a standoff between the person and the life that you want.

Heidi Priebe

#27. Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

Dalai Lama

#28. Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

Laura Mennell

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

Vincent Van Gogh

#32. 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

#33. This is your way of telling me I should be doing something far more worthwhile than peeling your potatoes.

Jojo Moyes

#34. 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

#35. I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#36. The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Richard Ford

#37. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Julia Child

#38. And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#39. Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

Amanda Lindhout

#40. I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.

Arthur Potts Dawson

#41. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Ingrid Weir

#42. Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#43. 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

#44. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love.

John Irving

#45. In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

Candace Kita

#46. What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways.

Mary Roach

#47. Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

Maryam Jameelah

#48. It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Earl Warren

#49. What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.

Gloria Gaither

#50. Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Viggo Mortensen

#51. One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Nido Qubein

#52. Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.

Steve Goodier

#53. Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

Will Rogers

#54. There is nothing called as cheap patents. Anything cheap is not worthwhile.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#55. What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

George Steiner

#56. Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.

Steven E. Landsburg

#57. Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.

Peprah Boasiako

#58. It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Ilchi Lee

#59. 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

#60. Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.

Jay Crownover

#61. I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education.

Chris Matakas

#62. The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#63. 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

#64. The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

Edgar Guest