Not Worth The Effort Quotes

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

Euripides

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. He could not make them understand that ... having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.

Joseph Heller

#4. Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

A.W. Tozer

#5. 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

#6. Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Helene Cixous

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.

Ayn Rand

#11. Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose his words with care. "Our best hope for happiness. And sometimes we find that thing, only to find it has simply not been worth the effort.

Robert Goolrick

#12. No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Boyd K. Packer

#13. They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well - you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.

Bill Hicks

#14. It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts.
In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

#15. It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#16. When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

Seth Godin

#17. Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies

Erich Fromm

#18. 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

#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. 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

#21. Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

Mandy Hale

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#26. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

H.L. Mencken

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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