“There's only one thing more important… and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.”
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James Hilton 5
British writer 1900–1954Related quotes

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

Letter to Gilbert Murray, March 21, 1903
1900s

Why Me
Song lyrics, Jesus Was a Capricorn (1972)

We can quite well turn away from our true destiny, but only to fall a prisoner in the deeper dungeons of our destiny. … Theoretic truths not only are disputable, but their whole meaning and force lie in their being disputed, they spring from discussion. They live as long as they are discussed, and they are made exclusively for discussion. But destiny — what from a vital point of view one has to be or has not to be — is not discussed, it is either accepted or rejected. If we accept it, we are genuine; if not, we are the negation, the falsification of ourselves. Destiny does not consist in what we feel we should like to do; rather is it recognised in its clear features in the consciousness that we must do what we do not feel like doing.
Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XI: The Self-Satisfied Age

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 2.

“When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.”
“You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.”
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: The answer can't be found in books — or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.