Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain couples with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering. Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?
The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.
Many Americans and Europeans fought on the side of the Republicans against the Fascists.
The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.
It's one of the things about being a person with a public presence, to get to lend your name to a worthy cause.
I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in harm's way to make people see that something needs to be done.
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
I caution people away from quitting their jobs to travel the world because I don't think traveling the world is a worthy cause on its own.
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.