Top 100 Effort Worth Quotes
#1. The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
Paul Bowles
#2. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#3. Showing someone they were amazing and worth some attention and effort could be done in a moment, but the impact could last a lifetime.
Erin Nicholas
#4. Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
Jamais Cascio
#5. Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton
#6. If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
Orison Swett Marden
#7. The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.
David Hawkins
#8. Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.
Erich Fromm
#9. The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
Daniel Dennett
#10. Qualifying an opportunity at the outset helps you determine whether it's worth pursuing at all, and, if it is, with how much effort.
Tom Sant
#11. Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.
Daniel Kahneman
#12. One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.
Stephane Audeguy
#13. No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly ... and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
Murasaki Shikibu
#14. What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.
Robert Greene
#15. It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort.
Anne Tyler
#16. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.
Terry Pratchett
#18. In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.
Lori Lansens
#19. Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#21. My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
Carlos Wallace
#22. Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#23. Truth and effort may increase human worth
But they are not enough to make us whole;
Only love can complete us.
Ilchi Lee
#24. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
#25. Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.
Steven Redhead
#26. The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.
Ayn Rand
#27. The reward of being able to tell stories every day is worth the effort required to make it happen, no matter how long it takes.
Sean Platt
#28. The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort.
Irvin D. Yalom
#29. You wake up, and you're nowhere.
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
You wake up, and that's enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
#30. Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Tom Rath
#31. Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?
Donna Lynn Hope
#32. Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt
#33. As I watch my priest lay the communion table for the gathered believers, I remember why eating attentively is worth all the effort: The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us.
Lauren F. Winner
#34. It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to ... the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility ... and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.
Robert Kennedy
#35. Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
Helene Cixous
#36. He avoided stepping on the plants - though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.
Brandon Sanderson
#37. Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.
Mandy Hale
#38. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards
and living up to them
is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. -
Seth Godin
#40. So, I may not be an expert on fathers, but I know that anyone who makes you feel less than worthy, especially someone who I believe is supposed to love and protect you, is not worth your effort.
Anna Hackett
#41. Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
Niklaus Wirth
#42. I think an artist might feel the same way when they place a brush to a canvas." She looked down at the design. "Even if the end result isn't beautiful for anyone but the artist, the journey is worth the effort.
Catherine Bybee
#43. It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian
#44. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#45. When nothing seems worth the effort - said some stern voice in her mind - it's a screen to hide a wish that's worth too much; what do you want?
Ayn Rand
#46. To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler
#47. Never waste your time trying to convince someone else of your worth. If they can't see it, they are not worth the effort.
Amari Soul
#48. I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
Yvon Chouinard
#49. Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
Douglas Adams
#50. When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home - you'll go home.
Rick Warren
#51. If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.
Andrea Bocelli
#52. I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much
Chet Baker
#53. I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.
Robert Jordan
#54. He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.
Joe Abercrombie
#55. The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.
Max Lucado
#56. Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
Deborah Day
#57. Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
Ivor Novello
#58. Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love - it can just happen somehow - and like magic she thinks that she's had enough, and that the way the two of you have been for a really long time is no longer worth the effort. Does that sound familiar to anyone.
Meg Wolitzer
#59. Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins
#60. In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.
Haruki Murakami
#61. Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness.
Amish Tripathi
#62. It's too hard to make a movie if you don't care about what happens to it, or even what the product is. I can't even imagine that. It's not worth the time and effort if you don't care about the product.
Bradley Cooper
#63. If someone believes you are worth the effort they will make the effort.
Kevin Darne
#64. A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#65. Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.
Anodea Judith
#66. Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone.
Andrew Smith
#67. To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.
Becky Chambers
#68. As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.
Chuck Palahniuk
#69. You really can't help being an asshole, can you?"
"I probably could, but it's not worth the effort.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.
Virginia H. Pearce
#72. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
Denis Waitley
#73. That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.
Lynn Coady
#74. I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off.
Beth Lewis
#75. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
#76. You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.
Lauren Kate
#77. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.
Seth Godin
#78. The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
Norton Juster
#79. I was made to protect you and you were made in a wa that it would always be worth the effort.
Kristen Ashley
#80. Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Robert Quillen
#81. You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.
Alexander Lowen
#82. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H.L. Mencken
#83. Aligning what you do with who you are requires commitment, effort, and perseverance. But the rewards are well worth it. Not only will it enhance the quality of your life, it may even prolong it.
Lauren Mackler
#84. One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.
Kay Robertson
#86. What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
Rafer Johnson
#87. When you look at your passions, your interests, and your own self, and see nothing of worth, then know that life will feed this belief back to you. If you can find a way to value yourself without exerting your will or your effort anymore, you will find that you need to do less, to shine more.
Kelly Martin
#89. It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
Joyce Carol Oates
#90. If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired.
Jason Fried
#91. Are you going to make me work for it?"
I nodded and straightened up from the post, bringing our bodies so close I could almost feel him against me. "If I don't believe I'm worth the effort, why the hell would you?
Samantha Young
#93. A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
#94. Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort.
Richard Blake
#95. I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.
Mark Kozelek
#96. Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Idries Shah
#97. Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen.
Kim Newman
#98. Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
Euripides
#99. It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.
Hugh Prather
#100. Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.
Fred Rogers
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