40 Nothing is Free Quotes

A collection of quotes about nothing in life or business being “free” from past, present, and unknown authors.

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  1. “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” – Milton Friedman

  2. “Everything has its price.” – Publilius Syrus

  3. “Freedom is not free.” – Unknown

  4. “Nothing worth having comes free.” – Theodore Roosevelt

  5. “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” – Robert A. Heinlein

  6. “Remember, there’s no free lunch.” – Dave Ramsey

  7. “Nothing in life is free.” – Jean Chatzky

  8. “You can’t get something for nothing.” – Rush

  9. “The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.” – John F. Kennedy

  10. “Nothing comes from doing nothing.” – William Shakespeare

  11. “The only Free Cheese is in the Mouse Trap.” – Russian Proverb

  12. “Everything that has value has its price.” – Paulo Coelho

  13. “Freedom is never free.” – Unknown

  14. “There is a cost for everything that is received.” – Jeremy Clarkson

  15. “There are no free gifts in life, you must earn everything you get.” – Anonymous

  16. “The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.” – Leon Blum

  17. “Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus

  18. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright

  19. “For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  20. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” – Ronald Reagan

  21. “Success is not free. The price is hard work and dedication.” – Vince Lombardi

  22. “Every man must give account of his stewardship.” – Bible

  23. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.” – Carl Sandburg

  24. “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.” – Ho Chi Minh

  25. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius

  26. “Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.” – Walter Winchell

  27. “There is no free gift. There is always a price to be paid.” – Maya Angelou

  28. “Every action has a consequence.” – Benjamin Franklin

  29. “There are no gains without pains.” – Benjamin Franklin

  30. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

  31. “For every promise, there is a price to pay.” – Jim Rohn

  32. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

  33. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok

  34. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison

  35. “Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” – Thomas Sowell

  36. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

  37. “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” – Meister Eckhart

  38. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

  39. “There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.” – John Ruskin

  40. “When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell