“Anything worth having is going to be hard”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails
“Anything worth having is going to be hard”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails
“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Heaven, Texas
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1910s, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
Joan Didion (1934) American writer
"On Self-Respect", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet”
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) German author
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Letter to J. G. Lockhart (c. 16 June 1830), in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.), Letters of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. II (1936), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999), p. 652