Top 100 Worth Doing Quotes
#1. If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
Steven Tyler
#2. There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.
Richard Branson
#3. Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.
David Archuleta
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. my grandpa
Fred Scott
#8. That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.
Ray Bradbury
#10. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." ~Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His God Son
Dawn Flowers
#11. 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
#12. Not everybody can create a foundation that's worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don't enjoy doing.
Max Lucado
#13. If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn Waugh
#14. It's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.
Joao Magueijo
#15. Depend upon it, behind all great achievement there lies great toil: nothing that is worth doing is done easily.
Stephen Mansfield
#16. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
Mother Teresa
#17. The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Don Marquis
#21. 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
#22. This sense of eagerness, of hope and of secret excitement. It was as if normal existence were a photograph of shapeless things in badly printed colors, but this was a sketch done in a few sharp strokes that made things seem clean, important - and worth doing.
Ayn Rand
#23. 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
#24. Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#25. Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
Roy Blount Jr.
#26. Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Donny Osmond
#27. And those noises - " He rolled her nipple between his thumb and forefinger, and she gasped. "K-keep doing that, sweetheart, and I'm going to make this so worth your while.
Ruthie Knox
#28. If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
Eva Green
#29. [F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn't require a portion of one's body and soul?
Jamie Kornegay
#30. I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead
#31. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.
Neil Gaiman
#32. Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.
Oscar Wilde
#34. The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.
Robert Littell
#35. Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.
Sydney J. Harris
#36. 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
#37. Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
Leigh Bardugo
#38. [For the French] time ... is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.
Debra Ollivier
#39. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Florynce Kennedy
#40. Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
Aidan Chambers
#41. There's time for everything except the things worth doing.
George Orwell
#42. When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
Kevin Nealon
#43. Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
Dallas Willard
#44. To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
Charles Palliser
#45. The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
Adam Leipzig
#46. If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Nile Rodgers
#47. We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing
Steven Tyler
#48. I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
Bram Stoker
#49. By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.
Sharon E. Rainey
#50. As usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.
George Eliot
#51. Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#52. Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
E. Merrill Root
#53. The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being.
Shauna Niequist
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
Robert Jordan
#58. One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
#59. If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
Tana French
#60. For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
#61. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#62. 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
#63. There needs to be passion behind what you're doing or it's not worth it,
Lisa Edelstein
#64. I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
Donald Trump
#65. I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy" Brenda to Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
#66. If it can't be done in bed, it's not worth doing.
Dave Van Ronk
#67. 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
#68. And as I worked, the strength returned to my arms and shoulders, and the hope to my heart - not the mad hope of wealth and power that had led me astray, but a sweet and steady sense of the worth of what I was doing.
Jem Poster
#69. When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.
P.S. Bartlett
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
Joel Salatin
#73. 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
#74. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#75. Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?
Tom Hardy
#76. Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
Amy Carmichael
#77. I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#79. Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
Ken Blanchard
#80. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
#81. I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.
Royal Robbins
#82. The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing
Winifred Holtby
#83. Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.
Gloria Steinem
#84. The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.
Carter Heyward
#85. 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
#86. Do not be so hard on the child. She is a product of her upbringing, just as you are. If you judge her worth based on frivolities, then you are doing the same as those who judge you based on your simple clothing.
Brandon Sanderson
#87. Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.
Cassandra Clare
#88. Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting, you're doing it in the context of everything you've posted before. Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping.
Evan Spiegel
#89. How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.
Muriel Barbery
#90. All work is worth doing well. And there are things to be enjoyed about most jobs ...
Cynthia Voigt
#91. Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#92. 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
#93. 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
#95. It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
Martin Fleischmann
#96. Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
Zig Ziglar
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
Ken Robinson
#100. My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.
Etgar Keret
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