A Quote by James Baldwin

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

James Baldwin

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James Baldwin
American - Writer
August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

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Gregor von Rezzori

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

Clifton Anderson

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

Haruki Murakami

You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.

Liam Fox

There's nobody who knows the left better than I know 'em. I know the left like I know every square inch of my gloriously naked body, not just the back of my hand. I know them. I know them better than they know themselves because they refuse to be honest about who they are really are and what they really believe, but I am.

Rush Limbaugh

My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.

Lance Berkman

Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

Katharine Hepburn

Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

Jeffrey Kluger

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Al Goldstein

That's just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what's right - and for what we do wrong. That's one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

Afeni Shakur

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

Katharine Hepburn

There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.