Well Done!

Quotations about Doing

• You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. ~ Dale Carnegie
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ~ Frederick W. Robertson
• If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it. ~ Edward Fischer
• Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. ~ David O. Mckay
• Success lies not in being the best, but in doing your best. ~ Author Unknown
• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ~ Andrew Carnegie
• A thing well done is worth doing. ~ Hugh Leonard
• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey
• There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. ~ Elbert Hubbard
• We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ~ Albert Einstein
• If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don’t talk about it… do it. ~ George W. Biount
• The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say ‘well done‘. ~ John Ashcroft
• Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. ~ Pythagoras
• The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves. ~ Unknown
• If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ~ Anita Roddick
• The trouble with most people is they think there’s only one right way to do anything. ~ Velda Johnston
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard. ~ Scott Adams
• You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. ~ Jimmy Carter
• The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. ~ Edward Simmons
• Always do what you are afraid to do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To give your best is to receive the best. ~ Raymond Holliwell
• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. ~ Steve Brown
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~ Epictetus
• A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ~ John Ruskin
• Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. ~ Elias Schwartz
• If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer
• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to. ~ Bob Cousy
• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing. ~ Spark Matsunaga
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. ~ Tony Robbins
• I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. ~ Edgar Winter
• All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. ~ Anna Quindlen
• I don’t think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. ~ Townes Van Zandt
• It’s simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do. ~ John R. Amos
• If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. ~ Will Rogers
• Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence — doing your best. ~ Sir Lawrence Olivier
• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• If a man does his best, what else is there? ~ George S. Patton
• A job worth doing is worth doing together. ~ Author Unknown
• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants. ~ Adam Clarke
• You try to do your best at what you’re getting paid for. ~ Sean Penn
• Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration. ~ Carlos Ghosn
• My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.~ Oprah Winfrey
• 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
• Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ~ Plato
• You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can’t talk yourself out of. ~ Constantine Karamanlis
• A problem is your chance to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington
• It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ Winston Churchill
• You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow. ~ Oprah Winfrey
• The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. ~ Donald Riggs
• In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it. ~ Alan Kulwicki
• Nothing is worth making that does not make the man. ~ Author Unknown
• Big men become big by doing what they didn’t want to do when they didn’t want to do it. ~ Author Unknown
• Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be. ~ Tori Amos
• All the things that are worth doing, take time. ~ Mos Def
• Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. ~ Greer Garson
• Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
• Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ~ Lou Holtz
• Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art. ~ Arsene Wenger
• Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
• People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk. ~ Ayn Rand
• What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts. ~ Eva Le Gallienne
• There is no right way to do something wrong. ~ Author Unknown
• Well done, is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin
• It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best. ~ W. Edwards Deming
• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
• People only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy. ~ Jack Nicklaus
• A leader knows what’s best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. ~ Ken Adelman
• You can only do your best. That’s all you can do. And if it isn’t good enough, it isn’t good enough. ~ Imelda Staunton
• Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. ~ Vance Havner
• The Law of Win/Win says, let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way. ~ Greg Anderson
• Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
• You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it! ~ Marie Corelli
• What is once well done is done forever. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. ~ Robert Heinlein
• Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing — and does it well. ~ Merrill E. Root
• I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. ~ David Letterman
• We have to do the impossible, but it is possible. ~ Kevin Garnett
• Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. ~ Dr. Jonas Salk
• Success has a simple formula: do your best and people may like it. ~ Sam Ewing
• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ~ Mae West
• There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
• Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. ~ Magic Johnson
• 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
• To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ~ George W. Bush
• Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right. ~ John Gray
• 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
• If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ~ Robert Hillyer
• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ~ Louis D. Brandeis
• 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
• To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. ~ Phillips Brooks
• Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don’t like to do. ~ Albert Gray
• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. ~ Winifred Holtby
• If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. ~ Elbert Hubbard
• Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. ~ Mary Kay Ash
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~ Og Mandino
• Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. ~ Anthony Robbins
• I like my hands. They do most of the talking. ~ Abbey Lee Kershaw
• There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. ~ Victor Robinson
• If you try to do your best there is no failure. ~ Mike Farrell
• Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon. ~ Barbara Sher
• Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. ~ H. W. Dresses
• The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement. ~ Og Mandino
• Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. ~ Lou Holtz
• Live like you’re already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you. ~ Jeff Bridges
• The true reward for a thing well done is to have been the one who did it. ~ Author Unknown
• If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. ~ Traditional Proverb
• Do what you fear most and you control fear. ~ Tom Hopkins
• Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. ~ George Bernard Shaw