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Prize Quotes

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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
Erich Maria Remarque

Authors on Prize Quotes: William Shakespeare Philip Warren Anderson Doris Lessing Norman Vincent Peale Rita Levi-Montalcini Ellen G. White Janet Frame Marcus Aurelius William Makepeace Thackeray Aristotle Paul Beatty John Piper Saul Perlmutter David Hockney Lewis Schiff Robert Dessaix Erich Maria Remarque Klaus Kinski Leanna Renee Hieber Sallust Andrew Harvey Phil Ochs John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby Kailash Satyarthi Chris Claremont Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Hughes Erro Maria Teresa Horta Ralph Waldo Emerson Ali ibn Abi Talib Jonathan Raymond Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
Kailash Satyarthi

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If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
Rita Levi-Montalcini

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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
P. T. Barnum

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There are no prizes for average performance.
Brian Tracy

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Those who act receive the prizes.
Aristotle

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Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
Thomas Brooks

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Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.
Janet Frame

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Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
Robert Kiyosaki

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You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
Phil Ochs

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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn

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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
Robert Hughes

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I prize the privilege of being alone.
Carl Rogers

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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
William Shakespeare

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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato

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The prize of all too precious you.
William Shakespeare

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It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
Klaus Kinski

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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Omar Bongo

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I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
Joshua Lederberg

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Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.
Norman Vincent Peale

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I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.
Erro

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Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
Marcus Aurelius

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The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
Philip Warren Anderson

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You can't praise what you don't prize.
John Piper

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It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
E. B. White

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The prize is always worth the rocky ride.
Emily Saliers

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He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
Friedrich Schiller

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Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.
Judith Rich Harris

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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
Terry Pratchett

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Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.
Chris Claremont

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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
William Makepeace Thackeray

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Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call
Saul Perlmutter

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Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
Christopher Marlowe

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One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.
Robert Dessaix

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I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.
Lewis Schiff

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But few prize honour more than money.
Sallust

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A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.
Leanna Renee Hieber

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We like the gift when we the giver prize.
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
William Shenstone

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Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.
Pat Sajak

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Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.
Maria Teresa Horta

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
Jonathan Raymond

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Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].
Paul Beatty

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Parts win prizes, not actors.
Alan Rickman