True cost Quotes

Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'

It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

You can buy life only with life.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

It is not easy to calculate the cost of land to build individual or community toilet systems. But we need to account for it when we total up the true cost of sanitation.

A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,--it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Don't ever be enamored by what something sells for. It's more important what you get to keep in your pocket.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.