To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.