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“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
William Arthur Ward
“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
Will Rogers
“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.”
Jo Coudert
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”
Arthur Helps
“Civility costs nothing and buys everything.”
Mary Worley Montagu
“If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.”
John Pierpont Morgan
“The least costly treatment for any illness is lethal medication.”
Walter Dellinger
“First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.”
William Hazlitt
“I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.”
“Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.”
Dan Castellaneta
