1.
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
Erich Maria Remarque
2.
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
Kailash Satyarthi
3.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
4.
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
P. T. Barnum
5.
There are no prizes for average performance.
Brian Tracy
6.
Those who act receive the prizes.
Aristotle
7.
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
Thomas Brooks
8.
Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.
Janet Frame
9.
Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
Robert Kiyosaki
10.
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
11.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James
13.
Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
14.
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.
18.
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato
21.
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Omar Bongo
23.
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
Klaus Kinski
24.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
Friedrich Schiller
27.
I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.
Erro
28.
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
Marcus Aurelius
30.
You can't praise what you don't prize.
John Piper
31.
It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
E. B. White
33.
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
Terry Pratchett
36.
Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.
Pat Sajak
37.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38.
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
42.
I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].
Paul Beatty
43.
I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
Norman Jewison
44.
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
Doris Lessing
46.
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
Joe Klein
47.
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Scheer
49.
It is war's prize to take all vantages;
And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
William Shakespeare