Worth Doing Quotes
183 quotes by 152 authors
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
— Max Beerbohm
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
— Lord Chesterfield
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
— Winifred Holtby
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What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
— Michael Douglas
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
— Frederick William Robertson
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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
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A thing well done is worth doing.
— Hugh Leonard
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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
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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
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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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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