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, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Money often costs too much”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”
― John Quincy Adams

“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, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“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, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“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, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”
― William Golding

“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, She

“Even viewed conservatively, trees are worth far more than they cost to
plant and maintain. The U.S. Forest Service's Center for Urban Forest
Research found a ten-degree difference between the cool of a shaded
park in Tucson and the open Sonoran desert. A tree planted in the
right place, the center estimates, reduces the demand for air
conditioning and can save 100 kilowatt hours in annual electrical use,
about 2 to 8 percent of total use. Strategically planted trees can
also shelter homes from wind, and in cold weather they can reduce
heating fuel costs by 10 to 12 percent. A million strategically
planted trees, the center figures, can save $10 million in energy
costs. And trees increase property values, as much as 1 percent for
each mature tree. These savings are offset somewhat by the cost of
planting and maintaining trees, but on balance, if we had to pay for
the services that trees provide, we couldn't afford them. Because
trees offer their services in silence, and for free, we take them for
granted.”
― Jim Robbins, The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet

“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and 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, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Liberty isn’t free, despite the fact that we ‘freely’ disregard that fact.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“From the first moment Emily held Connor in her arms, she loved him. He was dear to her, dear not just in the sense of cherished, but also in its older, forgotten meaning, the one that people didn't use often. Dear as in costly. Something that came at a high price. Whatever the price, Emily would pay it.”
― Marie Rutkoski, Ordinary Love

“Her name was Karen and Karen was kind in the way that people can be, when kindness doesn't cost them anything.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Artists don’t measure their art by what it can sell for. Price and worth live in different worlds—one can be bought, the other can’t.”
― RICHIE NORTON

“Death is the most expensive Thing — it costs you your Life.”
― Sino Melo

“Quite frequently the first ingredient in success is ‘pulp.’ Therefore, ‘getting beaten to a pulp’ may very well be necessary.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“Unfortunately it was not possible to force people to study cost-benefit analysis.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars

“There is a cost. A cost for what I am. For what I do.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“Price isn’t the only cost.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“The intent of application of a work standard is noble: predict costs; establish ceiling on costs. The actual effect is to double the cost of the operation and to stifle pride of workmanship. There are more engineers engaged in construction of work standards, and people counting production, than there are people engaged in actual production.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

“This was the cost of ambition. Loneliness, heartbreak, stoicism.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, The Inconvenience of Time

“Happiness comes with a price.”
― Adrian C. Louis, Bone & Juice

“It's just... he can't help himself. And everyone's left picking up the pieces.”
― Charles McGill from Better Call Saul

“Youth can be stolen.
The soul never forgets the cost.”
― Valon G

“Strength can be borrowed.
The consequences cannot.”
― Valon G, WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1