Personal Cost Quotes

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

I have a life of sacrifice. I don't have a normal social life.

The plan is one worthy... But I cannot accept it, for I would not have a single drop of Brazilian blood spilled for my sake.

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity.

For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading.