Robert E. Lee Quotes

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

The success is too dearly bought.

We obtained victory. The price was that we ruined the country.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Nothing comes without a price.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

You pay a price for everything in life.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

There's always a price for what you want.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

A bloody battle leaves even the victor bloodied. But compromise also has its costs—particularly when it alienates the majority and is taken as a sign of weakness.

It is a wide road that leads to the war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.