Bernadette Devlin Quotes

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

A great revolution ... must ... be productive of hazard, vicissitudes, and perhaps calamity. But the question is for you, whether or no it is not worth while to pass through the ordeal of temporary suffering to establish permanent liberty.

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.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

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

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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.

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.