Top 46 Work Worth Doing Quotes

#1. No man worth his salt, not even such a useless fribble as you clearly consider me to be, is going to watch his woman breaking her back over work he should be doing himself.

Karen Robards

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

Donny Osmond

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#3. Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

E. Merrill Root

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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#7. All work is worth doing well. And there are things to be enjoyed about most jobs ...

Cynthia Voigt

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#8. Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Carly Fiorina

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#9. It won't be as easy, but lots of things that are worth doing aren't easy. It just takes commitment, discipline, and, most important, faith that it's all going to work out.

Jason Fried

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#10. 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

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#11. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Amelia E. Barr

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#12. 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

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#13. The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.

A.D. Aliwat

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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#15. If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#16. Joy of life ... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

Bertrand Russell

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#17. I moonlighted during a two-week vacation, doing a month's worth of work in two weeks; it almost killed me, but I wanted to stretch my muscles and the letter from the producer says, "Your storyboarding is Eisensteinian," referring to the famous Russian filmmaker.

Mike Royer

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#18. I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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#19. The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Nevil Shute

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#20. Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Seth Godin

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#21. The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Seth Godin

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#22. 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

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#23. Learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

Joshua Foer

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#24. Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.

Anne Hathaway

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#25. If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One

Gerald M. Weinberg

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#26. Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pu

Robert A. Heinlein

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#27. It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#28. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Gore Vidal

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#29. Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It's about using the gifts and ability you've been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.

Julie Klassen

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#30. A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.

Paul Jarvis

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#31. Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#32. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Teddy Roosevelt

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#33. 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

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#34. The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#35. Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

Seth Godin

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#36. When he thought about how he wanted to build his career coming out of college, Hahn took inspiration from Theodore Roosevelt's famous dictum, "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."5

Reid Hoffman

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#37. 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

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#38. The opportunity to be able to tell stories to a massive audience is really incredible and this job couldn't be more satisfying. So, any drawbacks I think are worth it if you really enjoy the work. I hope to be doing this until I die.

Olivia Wilde

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#39. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

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#40. There is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.

Malcolm Gladwell

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#41. The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

Marge Piercy

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#42. Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.

Morgan Matson

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#43. A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).

G.H. Hardy

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#44. The only work really worth doing - the only work you can do convincingly - is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

David Bayles

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#45. I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#46. In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.

Sam Zell

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