“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
Folly and Female Education
What's Wrong With The World (1910)
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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936Related quotes
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.”
Gypsy Rose Lee
(1911–1970) American burlesque performer, actress, author
As quoted in Great Hollywood Wit: A Glorious Cavalcade of Hollywood Wisecracks, Zingers, Japes, Quips, Slings, Jests, Snappers, & Sass from the Stars (2003) by Gene Shalit, p. 46
Gretchen Rubin
(1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”
Variant: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
Hunter S. Thompson
(1937–2005) American journalist and author
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
(1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
The French attribute this to the painter Nicolas Poussin (born 15 June 1594) "Ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait vaut la peine d'être bien fait"
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“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
Ayn Rand
(1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
