Things worth doing!
Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Great One-line Quotes., Inspirational and Motivatetional, Words of wisdom, tags: Worth doing
- Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth livingfor: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.~ Albert Pike
- A job worth doing is worth doing together.~ Author Unknown
- Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.~ Elias Schwartz
- Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.~ Steve Brown
- Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.~ Barbara Sher
- As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.~ Spark Matsunaga
- A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.~ John Ruskin
- Don’t pray to escape trouble. Don’t pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.~ Samuel M. Shoemaker
- Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.~ Marlene Dietrich
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing — to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.~ Mahatma Gandhi
- Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.~ William Klassen
- I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories or have never done anything worth remembering.~ Oscar Wilde
- I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing; I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.~ Theodore Roosevelt
- If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.~ Traditional Proverb
- If a man has done nothing for a cause worth dying for, then he is not fit to live.~ Martin Luther King Jr.
- If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
- I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.~ Margaret Mead
- Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing — and does it well.~ Merrill E. Root
- Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.~ Louis D. Brandeis
- Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.~ Author Unknown
- Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.~ Frederick W. Robertson
- People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.~ Author Unknown
- Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.~ John Morely
- Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.~ David Letterman
- There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.~ Henry Ward Beecher
- The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.~ Gore Vidal
- The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.~ Winifred Holtby
- The wise don’t expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.~ Author Unknown
- To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and shrinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.~ Sydney Smith
- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Entries (RSS)