A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~ Orison Swett Marden

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
~ B. C. Forbes

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
~ Ralph Ransom

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
~ Vince Lombardi

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
~ Cesare Pavese

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.
~ Harry Browne

For every promise, there is price to pay.
~ Jim Rohn

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
~ John Dryden

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
~ Jim Valvano

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
~ Mike Ditka

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
~ John Pierpont Morgan

My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
~ W. C. Fields

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
~ Napoleon Hill

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

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
~ Orison Swett Marden

No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
~ Proverb

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
~ Vince Lombardi

One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.
~ James H. Robinson