This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent

This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Wislawa Szymborska

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
Joyce Maynard

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
Elliott Carter

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
Bobby Hull

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
Frederick Sanger

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.
Amos Alonzo Stagg

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
James Newman

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Christopher Reeve