Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. — James Hilton
For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free — John G. Lake
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience. — Saint Augustine
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more! — Ben Feldman
Teach us to give and not to count the cost. — Saint Ignatius
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. — Albert Einstein
The price of success must be paid in full, in advance. — Brian Tracy
For he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. — Bible Proverbs
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness. — J. C. Ryle
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. — Howard Gardner
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize. — Sam Nunn
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more. — Merle Shain
Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance. — John C. Maxwell
Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness. — D. Todd Christofferson
The costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future. — James Clear
Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much. — Charles Grandison Finney
Being truthful when you know it will cost you , Is the true test of honesty. — Dave Weinbaum
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Counting The Cost Image Quotes
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Counting Money Quotes
Being broke is a joke, I never found it funny / That's why I count my blessings / As much as I count my money... — Fabolous
I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school. — Sayings
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. — George Washington Carver
In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money. — French Montana
People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money. — Chris Voss
I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts. — Jim Rohn
You will never have this day again, so make it count.
Mining should not be too profitable because nothing should be too profitable, the world doesn't leave free money lying around. Therefore the price of Bitcoins can't rise too much above the cost of mining counting equipment depreciation among the costs of course. — Hal Finney
In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well. — Pericles
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.
Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time. — Mia Hamm
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving — E. Urner Goodman
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources. — Eduard Shevardnadze
Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.
Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to. — Chris Gardner
'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some. — Eleanor Porter
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. — Abhishek Bachchan
Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant. — Hjalmar Schacht
Cost Price Quotes
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. — Adam Smith
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. — Meister Eckhart
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems.
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. — Phil Crosby
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite
Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. — Aldo Gucci
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, 'Let's go fight and win it all back!' But at what price? What is the cost? It's another story of lives and land. And I won't do it. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Labor costs are rising in China and it is being rivaled by Thailand and Indonesia, for price if not volume. — Tim Marshall
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell
Storing just 3 days of global energy would cost $590 trillion at Elon Musk's current prices. And the panels would take up more space than all the world’s cities, towns, and villages combined. — Alex Epstein
Count The Cost Quotes
O my God, teach me to be generous
to serve you as you deserve to be served
to give without counting the cost
to fight without fear of being wounded
to work without seeking rest
and to spend myself without expecting any reward
but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
Amen — Ignatius of Loyola
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will. — Ignatius of Loyola
Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. — Steven Moffat
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given. — Julian of Norwich
I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live. — Everett Ruess
Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus. — Pope Francis
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time. — Chester Bennington
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. — Laurent Fabius
The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost. — Robert H. Goddard
You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost. — Eileen Caddy
Pay The Price Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Grief is the price we pay for love. — Elizabeth II
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell
Don't count the things you do, do the things that count.
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. — Cornel West
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be.
But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price. — Lane Frost
I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life. — Carl Rogers
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. — Vince Lombardi
Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people. — Mike Murdock
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer. — Stephen King
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses. — Robert Greene
Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values. — Jim Rohn
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost — Sayings
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later. — Edmund Wilson
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost. — Ignatius of Loyola
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. — Julian of Norwich
But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted. — Herman E. Daly
Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. — Sara Teasdale
May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth. — Pope Francis
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. — John Spratt
I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free. — Toby Keith
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted. — Frances Moore Lappé
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write — Anne Mccaffrey
Always count the cost. — Proverbs
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime. — Esther Williams
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice. — John Henry Newman
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. — Sun Tzu
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step. — Regina Brett
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence? — Mary C. Ames
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune. — Charles Dickens
Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation. — Coleman Sellers II
Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see — Nancy Holder
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. — Thomas Jefferson
Teach us to give and not count the cost. — St. Ignatius Loyola
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. — Thomas J. Watson
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs. — Harold J. Seymore
In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth. Give thy love freely; do not count the cost; So beautiful a thing was never lostIn the long run. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules. — Henry David Thoreau
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