Cost Quotes

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

~ Toba Beta

Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.

~ Suzy Kassem

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a sacred cost for everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” one needs to work for self-improvement, to possess decisiveness, to have a will to win and dedication to achieve the goal at all cost

~ Sunday Adelaja

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I FELT HAPPINESS LIKE A BLIND,TILL I HAD A SATISFIED MIND.SORROW FOR WHAT I LOST,IS LIKE DREAMS THAT COST.

~ Merlin8Thomas

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.

~ Francine Rivers

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find then implement your own desires.

~ Steven Redhead

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.

~ Ken Liu

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

~ Suzy Kassem

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

~ H. Rider Haggard

The price of stability is unpreparedness.

~ Anthony Ryan

The price of love is high- but pain- we sell it cheap.

~ Danica Novgorodoff

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

~ Amy Harmon

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

~ Cortney S. Warren

Don't just bargain for success. Pay the price!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter the amount of money a person may have , a dishonest way of life will cost him everything he has

~ Sunday Adelaja

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

~ Dan Brown

If time is money, how much is a lifetime?

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

~ Criss Jami

There are many who say ‘I believe this,’ but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.

~ Conn Iggulden

My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears.

~ J. Neven-Pugh

Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.

~ Suzy Kassem

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

~ Rick Riordan

I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his grand designs without ever knowing that my path along the board is only a feint, while the important matters are played out elsewhere by other men. But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: To see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. When a life spins out as joyfully as mine has done, then the price, one paid so painfully, is now recalled in gladness. I have received full value. Here among the shepherds, my cup is filled with the water of life; it overflows.

~ Orson Scott Card

It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.

~ Olawale Daniel

You are priceless— fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost.

~ Michelle Mckinney Hammond

If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

~ Amit Kalantri

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you don't have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it's given to you! If you don't have an idea, you can't even know how much money you need... This is because; it's your ideas that give you the cost to pay!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the critical factors that make people’s dreams become nightmares is that they don’t know there is a cost to be paid!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can't know the amount you will need!

~ Israelmore Ayivor