I'm Not Worth The Effort Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.

Max Lucado

#3. He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.

Joe Abercrombie

#4. 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

#5. Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.

Anodea Judith

#6. Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

#7. 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

#8. Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

Euripides

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort.

Richard Blake

#13. 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

#14. A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you? (Callie)
Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off.

Beth Lewis

#24. 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

#25. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Denis Waitley

#26. Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

Virginia H. Pearce

#27. When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?

Maria V. Snyder

#28. You really can't help being an asshole, can you?"
"I probably could, but it's not worth the effort.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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.

#34. If someone believes you are worth the effort they will make the effort.

Kevin Darne

#35. 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

#36. Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness.

Amish Tripathi

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

Ivor Novello