“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”

“Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving, the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.”

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

“As with anything worth achieving, the road to all-encompassing evil has no shortcuts.”

“Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.”

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing”