This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

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.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

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.

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

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.