Top 65 Quotes About Anything Worth Doing
#1. Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
Julia Cameron
#2. Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
Jon Foreman
#4. There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.
Robert Penn Warren
#5. Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
Henry James
#6. Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
Seth Godin
#7. An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can't find anything worth doing.
Tom Upton
#9. An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.
Joanna Russ
#10. No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
Douglas V. Steere
#11. My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.
Terry McMillan
#12. Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.
Fauja Singh
#13. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
#14. Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.
Douglas Wilson
#15. There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
Henry Ward Beecher
#16. The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#18. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles Horton
#19. Anything worth doing should be done according to the will of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#20. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.
Robert Penn Warren
#21. I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
Arnold Bennett
#22. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.
Elaine S. Dalton
#23. Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
Leigh Bardugo
#24. We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing
Steven Tyler
#25. Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.
Reba McEntire
#26. I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#27. Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
Ken Blanchard
#28. Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#29. Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
Flea
#30. Anything worth doing hurts a little.
Mike Rowe
#31. Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly ...
Gypsy Rose Lee
#33. I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident ... Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
#34. Being a winner sometimes has little to do with the score. If your players seize the opportunity to be better today than they were yesterday in softball, in math, in music, in anything worth doing in life, regardless of natural ability, that will make them winners on and off the field.
Lawrence Hsieh
#35. Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.
Greg Boyle
#36. Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
Zig Ziglar
#37. Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty
#38. If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
Gautama Buddha
#39. If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.
George Foreman
#40. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Frederick William Robertson
#41. If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Edwin Land
#42. Anything that can't be done in bed isn't worth doing at all.
Groucho Marx
#43. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Jack Gilbert
#44. The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
#45. There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
Edwin Land
#46. Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.
Seal
#47. There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
Rachel Simon
#48. If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
Martha N. Beck
#49. When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Ric Flair
#50. Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
Elias Schwartz
#51. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy
#53. Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?
Ray McGovern
#54. Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm
#55. 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
#56. Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
Ray Bradbury
#57. Understanding the intricacies involved in raising someone with a physical or mental challenge for those who have never experienced it is like trying to understand anything foreign; impossible, though definitely worth doing anyway.
Lynette Louise
#58. The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.
Robert Rodriguez
#59. The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.
Charlie Ebersol
#60. Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.
Carol Deppe
#61. To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino
#62. Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing ... Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.
Mark Kingwell
#63. Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.
Marcus Aurelius
#64. If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over.
Jeff Bezos
#65. When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.
P.S. Bartlett
