Top 100 Quotes About Worth The Effort
#1. 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
#2. I didn't take well to pitying yourself. It weren't worth the effort or time and it pissed people off.
Beth Lewis
#3. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
Denis Waitley
#4. Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.
Virginia H. Pearce
#5. You really can't help being an asshole, can you?"
"I probably could, but it's not worth the effort.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. If someone believes you are worth the effort they will make the effort.
Kevin Darne
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.
Anodea Judith
#10. Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.
Fred Rogers
#11. 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
#12. Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
Euripides
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Never grow old, my little Briton. It really isn't worth the effort.
Richard Blake
#16. A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Robert Quillen
#21. I was made to protect you and you were made in a wa that it would always be worth the effort.
Kristen Ashley
#22. The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
Norton Juster
#23. Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
Jamais Cascio
#24. The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.
Ayn Rand
#25. 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
#26. Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#27. My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
Carlos Wallace
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.
Daniel Kahneman
#33. The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.
David Hawkins
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
Helene Cixous
#42. 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
#43. Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Tom Rath
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. There's always something or someone to do.'But don't you ever find it too much work, Howard?' asks Flora, 'All this dressing and undressing, all these undistinguished climaxes, all this chasing for more of the same, is it really, really, worth the effort?'Of course' [ ... ].
Malcolm Bradbury
#47. 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
#48. Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#49. The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.
Vijay Krishna
#50. When you eat pure food that isn't genetically modified, your physical and mental state does improve and it's worth the effort to make that happen.
Laura Prepon
#51. I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on.
Lee Kuan Yew
#52. 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
#53. But it's so hard, Papa...
Those things that are most beneficial to us generally are. But they are also worth the effort.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#54. I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later ... Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.
Ryan C. Gordon
#55. Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
Mary Balogh
#56. Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.
Olen Steinhauer
#57. There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.
Joyce Meyer
#58. Is it worth the effort to tell an idiot that they are profoundly stupid? Or is it just good fun to see the blank stare?
Neil Leckman
#59. 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
#60. If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell you, though, that it will be a very hard journey. But I should also tell you that it is well worth the effort.
Helen Freeman
#61. 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
#62. If you grow up in a household where there are books, where you are read to, where parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins read for their own pleasure, naturally you learn to read. If no one close to you takes joy in reading, where is the evidence that it's worth the effort?
Carl Sagan
#63. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
Jane Campion
#65. I am worth the effort of creating a blissful life. I choose to care for myself like a treasured lover. I love myself.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#66. Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#67. I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
Jacki Weaver
#68. Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.
Paulo Coelho
#69. It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.
Roger Ebert
#70. It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
Lee Gutkind
#71. My new favorite word is 'awkward.' ... Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Seth Godin
#72. The journey of learning the secret language of dreams is fascinating and well worth the effort.
Pamela Cummins
#73. He could not make them understand that ... having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.
Joseph Heller
#74. I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
Philip Schultz
#75. Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.
Regina R. Carver
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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.
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.
Max Lucado
#88. He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.
Joe Abercrombie
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H.L. Mencken
#96. You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.
Alexander Lowen
#97. 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
#98. Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.
Steven Redhead
#99. 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
#100. The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.
Terry Pratchett
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