Anything Worth Doing Quotes

• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Perfection, Excellence, Quality

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Dream, Believe, Expectations

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• Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.

  Fauja Singh

  Difficult

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• Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Coward, Moderation

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quality

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.38, Jaico Publishing House

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• I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Discipline

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• Anything worth doing hurts a little.

  Mike Rowe

  Hurt, Littles

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

  Myles Horton

  Struggle, Winning, Trying

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

  Edwin Land

  Hard Work, Excess

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• Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

  Jon Foreman

  World, This World, Difficult

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• Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Wells

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• 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

  Dirty, Way, Firsts

  "Biographical Memoirs V.83" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, National Academies Press, (p. 201), 2003.

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Famous Inspirational, Persons

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• 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

  Trials, Invention, Results

  "A Photographic Talk with Edison". Interview with Theodore Dreiser, Success Magazine, February 1898.

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• 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. 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.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Life, Success, Fashion

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• 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

  Choices, Way, Knows

  Song: You're Gonna Be

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• Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

  Seth Godin

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• 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.

  Tom Upton

  Stupid, Thinking, Hands

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

  Julia Cameron

  Healing, Might, Teens

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 02, 2013

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• ...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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Freedom, Plato, Mean

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

  Terry McMillan

  Inspirational, Scary, Littles

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• 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

  Determination, Long, Goes On

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• I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Believe, Practice

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