"Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre……" — Tom Robbins
"Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating."
More Anything Worth Quotes
- For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no… — John Burroughs
- The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- And anything worth dying for — Joseph Heller
- Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks… — Woodrow Wilson
- 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… — 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
- It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway. — Percival Everett
- Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether. — Epictetus
- Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first. — Ken Blanchard
- Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Â Moderation is for cowards. — Marcus Luttrell
- A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker