Pay Quotes

• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

  Cass Gilbert

  Land, Machines, Skyscraper

  Sharon Irish, Cass Gilbert (1999). “Cass Gilbert, architect: modern traditionalist”, The Monacelli Press

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

  John Burroughs

  Love, Life, Motivational

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

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• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Positive, Mistake

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “JumpStart Your Growth: A 90-Day Improvement Plan”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Money

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  Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Worry

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• When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Christian

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2012

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• 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

  Motivational, Success, Football

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• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Political, Society, Paying Taxes

  Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue (dissenting opinion) (1927)

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  Vince Lombardi (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

  Brittany Maynard

  Pay It Forward, Energy, Spread

  "Terminally Ill Woman Who Fought For Her Right To Die Commits Suicide", www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2014.

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• When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Doors, People, Attention

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from May 10, 2015

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• Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

  Ricky Gervais

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Apr 29, 2015

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• And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Hard Work, Thinking, Bed

  "Ryan Seacrest: Lord of Hosts" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2009.

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• It is the customer that pays the wages

  Henry Ford

  Wages, Customers

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• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Weight, Authority

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

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• The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

  Frank X. Barron

  Science, Creative, Attention

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.

  May Robson

  Dream, Pay The Price, Vision

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• Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.

  Ally Carter

  Senior, Cousin, Queens

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