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Everything Comes With A Price

“Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself, what price are you willing to pay?”

Paullina Simons

According to quora.com. Everything comes with a price means basically the same thing as choose your battles. You have to decide if the consequences of an action are worth taking the action. While not everything costs money, everything does have consequences.

Notable Quotes

“Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.”

Harry Browne

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!”

Mark Twain

“All of life is a transaction. You can get anything you want, but what are you willing to give up to get it?”

Joel Runyon

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

Jim Rohn

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

Lisa Lutz

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

Jim Rohn

Suggested Reading

Hard Goals: The Secret to Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

by Mark Murphy

High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard

Points of Reflection

No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, you’ll have to give up something in order to make it happen.

What are you willing to give up getting what you want? Once a choice is made that is the price.

While not everything costs money, everything does have consequences. A similar saying is, “You have to pay the piper if you want to dance.”

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

Jim Rohn