There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave. – Henry Ward Beecher
In Difficult Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. – Theodore Roosevelt
In Motivational I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. – Thomas A. Edison
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. – Robert A. Heinlein
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way. – Abbott Lawrence Lowell
What’s worth doing is worth doing for money. – Michael Douglas As Gordon Gecko, in Wall Street movie.
Mollison’s Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn’t worth doing. – Unknown
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
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. – Max Beerbohm
I always say it’s worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It’s worth holding out. It’s worth having pride. – Geraldine Page
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, ‘This isn’t what I want to do’ and changed course. – Ian Hislop
Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily. – Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 35.
Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn’t go so well. Who knew? People didn’t want gang members in their homes. I just didn’t see that coming. – Greg Boyle
I have never started a novel – I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel – I’ve never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. – Joan Didion
Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it’s worth doing another one. There’s also cynicism and skepticism about sequels. – Colin Firth
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, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. – Arthur C. Clarke
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away. – Aidan Chambers
What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don’t have that, it’s not worth doing, frankly. – Christopher Guest
I’m scared of horses, and I don’t know how to shoot them, but that’s what excites me. After 40 years old, if you don’t do some things that really terrify you, I don’t think they’re worth doing. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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 it was a good idea all along! – Arthur C. Clarke
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
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 to help on a campaign. – Carly Fiorina
