Top 100 Worth Doing Quotes
#1. A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing
you are stretching ... You are going outside your immediate grasp.
Yanni
#2. ...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you.
Claire Bidwell Smith
#3. I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Vikram Seth
#4. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy
#5. An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.
Peter Medawar
#6. 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
#7. Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt
#8. 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
#9. If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing.
James Rollins
#10. Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty
#11. How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.
Ahdaf Soueif
#12. 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
#13. Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
Jon Foreman
#14. So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.
Brad Pitt
#15. In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
L.M. Montgomery
#17. 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
#18. Anyone worth doing, is worth doing well.
Emma Chase
#19. I don't need a date to set a goal, if its worth doing then its worth starting that minute. Just saying.
"I'll start on this date" is an excuse, and excuses are the vises of the weak.
Ronin
#20. Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#21. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
Gautama Buddha
#23. If you're only doing it for the money, it's probably not worth doing to begin with.
Ben McLeish
#24. 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
#26. Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.
Nancy Kress
#27. Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
Elbert Hubbard
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
Scott Adams
#32. They say ol' man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He's the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.
Colum McCann
#33. If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.
Tommy Bolin
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.
Trisha Yearwood
#37. 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
#39. You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.
Isla Dewar
#41. I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
#42. Things need to be worth doing for themselves, not just for practice for some future time.
Jo Walton
#43. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Teddy Roosevelt
#44. Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing's worth doing unless it has the potential of to fuck up your whole life
Richard Ford
#45. [T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing
such as making love.
G.K. Chesterton
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
E.L. James
#50. 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
#52. The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#54. Most thing worth doing come with their fair share of risks
Kirsten Beyer
#55. Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
Seth Godin
#56. Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
Seth Godin
#57. ...A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing badly... le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
Beverley Nichols
#58. You're very passionate about your unhappiness aren't you, Chris?' I responded with, If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Laura Buzo
#59. It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
Gregory Benford
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it's not worth saying, and if it's a darkness around you perhaps it's not worth remembering.
E.E.D. Horton
#64. The worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.
Richard Ford
#65. It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Frederick William Robertson
#67. 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
#68. Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#70. There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. The thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because, actually, life's pretty good. It really is.
Elon Musk
#72. The danger of letting people ask, "Is this the best way to do this job?" is that after a while they may ask, "Is this job worth doing?
John Holt
#73. Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
#74. If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
Homer
#75. 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
#76. Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
Robert Adams
#77. 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
#78. If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.
Nido R. Qubein
#79. New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
#80. Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.
Morgan Matson
#81. I mean when someone says I forbid it, that's a good sign it's worth doing.
Rick Riordan
#82. It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
#83. 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
#84. Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.
Gordon Korman
#85. Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
#86. Sometimes the hardest things in life, are the things most worth doing. It's because we haven't figuered them out yet, doesn't mean we wont.
Richard Castle
#88. Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
Paolo Giordano
#89. 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
#90. It's not worth doing if you're not going to do it perfectly.
A.C. Efverman
#91. There's only one thing more important ... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.
James Hilton
#92. When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
Michel Gondry
#93. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles Horton
#94. 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
#95. All the things that are worth doing, take time.
Mos Def
#96. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)
Sybil MacBeth
#97. Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.
Laura Lippman
#98. Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
Elias Schwartz
#99. 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
#100. 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
