“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“Glory — once achieved, what is it worth?”
— Emil M. Cioran, book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
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Però che Amore è quel che dà la gloria,
E che fa l'omo degno ed onorato,
Amore è quel che dona la vittoria,
E dona ardire al cavalliero armato
Bk. 2, Canto 18, st. 3
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1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Context: Among ourselves we differ in many qualities of body, head, and heart; we are unequally developed, mentally as well as physically. But each of us has the right to ask that he shall be protected from wrong-doing as he does his work and carries his burden through life. No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing; and this is a prize open to every man, for there can be no better worth doing than that done to keep in health and comfort and with reasonable advantages those immediately dependent upon the husband, the father, or the son. There is no room in our healthy American life for the mere idler, for the man or the woman whose object it is throughout life to shirk the duties which life ought to bring. Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving.
“Always there is something worth saying
about glory, about gratitude.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: What Do We Know
“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
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“As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
Steven D. Levitt (1967) American economist
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
