Bernadette Devlin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

There's always a price for what you want.

It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

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

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.

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

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

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

For everything you gain, you lose something.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

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