Worth Doing Quotes

183 quotes by 152 authors

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. — Max Beerbohm
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. — Louis D. Brandeis
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. — Lord Chesterfield
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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… — Arthur C. Clarke
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,… — Arthur C. Clarke
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to… — Gertrude Jekyll
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. — Winifred Holtby
What's worth doing is worth doing for money. — Michael Douglas
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. — Frederick William Robertson
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… — Carly Fiorina
A thing well done is worth doing. — Hugh Leonard
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
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… — Kim Campbell
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by… — Thomas A. Edison
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave. — Henry Ward Beecher
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… — Sam Zell
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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