Quotes About Trade-off

To own your life is hardly good Unless you own your livelihood: To own your livelihood's as bad If, in exchange, your life is had.

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher? No. You can't trade what is for what might have been.

Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.

So you would have me take the job simply to avoid something worse.

There's going to come a point where you have to give up your whole life for one thing...or give up that one thing for a whole another life.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

For every path you choose there's a path you must abandon

Sometimes we have to lose something precious in order to gain something priceless.

Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you're saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you're saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

There is no such thing as a free lunch

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Make no mistake: opposing low-carbon technologies is an implicit vote for a high-carbon energy system, and opponents must recognise this real-world trade-off."[

Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?