If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
— Oscar Wilde
Revealing Things Worth Fighting For quotations
Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
Some things in life are worth waiting for.
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds.
.. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.
Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't.
They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for.
He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.
There are things worth fighting for.
I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.
Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best.
So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Why is this so hard?” I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.
It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.
There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.
I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for.
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for.
Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.
The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for
I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down.