125 Anything Worth Doing Quotes

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Famous Anything Worth Doing Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth doing well. — Hunter S. Thompson

Anything worth doing is worth 100%. — Konosuke Matsushita

Nothing is worth doing unless it is worth doing right. — Philip Arthur Fisher

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. — Robert Fulghum

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. - Mae West

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. — Mae West

Anything in life worth having is worth working for. — Andrew Carnegie

Anything worth having is worth fighting for. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. - David Letterman

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. — David Letterman

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way — Chuck Norris

Why do anything unless it is going to be great? — Peter Block

Everything worth doing starts with being scared. — Art Garfunkel

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort. — Theodore Roosevelt

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. - Hunter S. Thompson

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly. — Gypsy Rose Lee

Short Anything Worth Doing Quotes

  • Everything worth having requires sacrifice. — Lex Fridman
  • Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards. — Marcus Luttrell
  • Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy. — Indira Gandhi
  • Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit. — Chris Burkard
  • Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile. — Jack Lemmon
  • Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work. — J. R. D. Tata
  • Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk. — Chris Hadfield
  • Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. — Steve Brown
  • Adventure is worthwhile. — Aesop
  • If you do a job, do it right or there is no point. — Cal Ripken, Jr.

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Anything worth doing quote You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

What We Value Quotes

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tuley

Anything worth doing quote Self worth is so vital to your happiness. If you don't feel good about you, It's hard to feel good a
Self worth is so vital to your happiness. If you don't feel good about you, It's hard to feel good about anything else.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey

We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us. — Isabel Briggs Myers

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. — Maya Angelou

Anything worth doing quote Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

No matter what you think your values are, your actions tell the real story. What we do with our spare time shows what we value. — Jay Shetty

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do. — Louie Giglio

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return? — Adam Grant

If what we value is unhelpful, if what we consider success/failure is poorly chosen, then everything based upon those values—the thoughts, the emotions, the day-to-day feelings—will all be out of whack. — Mark Manson

Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well Quotes

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. — Gypsy Rose Lee

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. — Elias Schwartz

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

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well. — Zig Ziglar

Worth Having Quotes

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for. — Oscar Wilde

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth? — Marco Pierre White

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. - Jean-Paul Sartre

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore

There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other. — Chief Dan George

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices. — Zaha Hadid

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. — Ariana Grande

Worthwhile Things Quotes

Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. — Saint Francis de Sales

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things. — Benjamin E. Mays

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. — Robert W. Service

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. — Mike Rowe

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?". — Robert Fulghum

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. — Brian Tracy

The only thing I have is a burning desire to do something worthwhile with my life. I wake up every morning with love in my heart and fire in my belly. — Chatri Sityodtong

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. — Vince Lombardi

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. — William Raspberry

Anything Worth Having Quotes

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. - Socrates

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. — Socrates

Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! — David Brainerd

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. — John Burroughs

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say. — Roberto Rossellini

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. — Walter Scott

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. — Joan Didion

There are a lot of things that come easy, but they're not necessarily worth it. Anything worth having, you work hard for. That's how I feel I am. — Demetria McKinney

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

Do Something Worthwhile Quotes

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. — Pierre Coneille

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile. — Wilfred Grenfell

Make sure the meetings are worthwhile meetings – that they aren't just for the sake of getting together, but they are actually doing something and that the right people are together. — Kyle Roof

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either. — Ana Castillo

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. — Alfred P. Sloan

I wanted to know that if I ever got killed, I got killed doing something worthwhile. — Michael J. Massimino

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see? — Colonel Sanders

To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone. — Bruce McLaren

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. — Derek Walcott

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today. — Garth Brooks

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More Anything Worth Doing Quotes

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. — Erica Jong

I know what we’re going to do by the time we’re dead. And it isn’t worth trading that for anything today that could take away from that. — Alex Hormozi

I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. — Saul Bass

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency. — Mark Manson

Anything worth doing hurts a little. — Mike Rowe

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. — Plato

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

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing. — Myles Horton

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. — Pablo Picasso

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first. — Brian Tracy

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards. — Seal

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. — Buddha

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

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do. — Jon Foreman

You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love is worth, I can't believe the way you get through to me. ~ Shania Twain If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything — Marilyn Monroe

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess. — Edwin Land

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

Anything worth doing is going to be difficult. — Fauja Singh

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. — Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood. — Lucy Larcom

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. — Morgan Freeman

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison

Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway. — Hal Elrod

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can. — Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen. — Julia Cameron

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. — Edwin Land

Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them. — Jordin Sparks

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and I hope I am always in the same frame of mind when I act or do anything else. That's what makes life interesting and worth living. — Kajol

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave. — Henry Ward Beecher

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent. — Gretchen Carlson

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying. — Geoff Johns

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

When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything. — Mary J. Blige

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

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. — Robert A. Heinlein

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