Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

For everything you gain, you lose something.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

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

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.

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

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

There's always a price for what you want.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Nothing comes without a price.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

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.

For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

You pay a price for everything in life.

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.