Top 1200 Anything Worth Doing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

I know I didn't do anything to desire the talent, that God gave me. What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living! I know I'm very privileged to get to do that, so - that said I don't want to take that for granted! I want to do everything I possibly can to make it worth my while, make it worth God's time. With that comes a competitive advantage - I think I'm pitching for a lot more than just winning a baseball game, trying to honor Him in everything I'm doing - and winning's pretty fun too! So, I like doing that!.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

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.

Anything worth having is worth working for.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.

G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

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

Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.

When you start anything new for the fist time, always know why you’re doing it and what you hope to accomplish as a result. Weigh out the pros and cons and check in with your heart to see if it is something worth pursuing. Life is extremely short, and you should be doing the things that give you the most fulfillment.

I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

With the turmoil, with the vicissitudes, with the pain we inflict on each other, love is possible. Sometimes the roads cross and it's worth doing it. Go for it, it's worth it.

We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's any karma for that.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

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.

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

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Something worth doing might take a while, so really flesh out the potential of the business and be honest about whether it's worth doing. If it's not a $100 million company in five years, maybe it'll take 10 or 15 years. If you're doing something that has a universal, timeless need, then you need to think of the company in a timeless way.

I like to innovate. To me, if it's worth doing something, it's worth doing it well. Do something that's going to demand attention and notice.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

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.

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

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

I was always taught that anybody and everything is worth spending time and interest on and there's no reason to pass over anything. So it led me in a route that was just hyper awareness of human beings and care and love. So it's made me at least more open to trying anything, doing everything and experiencing all that I can in this little bit of life that we have.