Something Worth Doing Quotes

#1. Something worth doing is something worth putting your heart into.

Ray Torres

#2. What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

Seth Godin

#3. There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.

Kim Campbell

#4. If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you'll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.

Seth Godin

#5. 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

#6. A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing
you are stretching ... You are going outside your immediate grasp.

Yanni

#7. At length she gently pushed me away, and with the words, "Go, my son, and do something worth doing," turned back, and, entering the cottage, closed the door behind her. I felt very desolate as I went. CHAPTER

George MacDonald

#8. But the training I got really helped out later in life. I recommend the military as an experience to anyone. Not a happy experience necessarily, but something worth doing.

P.S. Power

#9. Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Donny Osmond

#10. This is the only thing that makes life worth living. If you have succeeded in doing something you wanted to do, something that seemed impossible - well, then, make the most of it, with all your heart, to the very brim.

Ivan Turgenev

#11. I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

Gwen Stefani

#12. 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

#13. I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Trisha Yearwood

#14. Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Elliott Smith

#15. Making money isn't hard in itself ... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Russell Baker

#17. You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Hamilton Leithauser

#18. 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

#19. The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.

Leon Max

#20. Who can reckon up the loss of moral power that arises from the constant impression that nothing is worth doing in itself, but only as a preparation for something else, which in turn is only a getting ready for some genuinely serious end beyond?

John Dewey

#21. I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Vikram Seth

#22. They are all doing their best; even when they are not, they wish they were, and that is worth something too.

Maud Casey

#23. Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

E.L. Konigsburg

#24. I will spend my life traveling, laughing, drinking all kinds of tea, meeting new people, reading good books, growing things, creating beauty, eating chocolate, doing magic, making love and occasionally I will write something worth reading.

Brooke Hampton

#25. It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

Terry Pratchett

#26. If something's worth doing, then it's worth doing properly, even if it is only offering a biscuit with a cup of tea.

Hazel Gaynor

#27. If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now.

Wes Fesler

#28. I'm very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I'll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I'll do it.

Lee Kuan Yew

#29. 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

#30. All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful to have one another. Weren't appearances worth something?

Dorothea Benton Frank

#31. I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.

Amy Carter

#32. G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

Ralph Fletcher

#33. If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.

Homer

#34. Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.

Laura Lippman

#35. Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Diane Keaton

#36. Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.

Christine Morgan

#37. Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

Emilie Autumn

#38. If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

Matt Groening

#39. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Mother Teresa

#40. I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Juliet Stevenson

#41. 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

#42. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.

Mira Grant

#43. If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Nile Rodgers

#44. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.

Nicola Sturgeon

#45. You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

Imogen Cunningham

#46. I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

Olympia Dukakis

#47. When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

P.S. Bartlett

#48. Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

John Perry

#49. If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.

John Dyer Baizley

#50. Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.

Amy Carmichael

#51. You only get hurt that badly when you're doing something that matters.Something impossible.Taking a risk.Investing yourself.And ball's worth it,the rush you get, the exhilaration...

Allison Parr

#52. If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

Timothy Ferriss

#53. Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#54. Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

#55. If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

Jackie French

#56. A life worth living, and work worth doing - that is what I want for children (and all people), not just, or not even, something called 'a better education.

John Holt

#57. Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

Robert A. Heinlein

#58. Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

Seth Godin

#59. I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.

Susan Sontag

#60. If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

Harry Chapin