Prize Quotes

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

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

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

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

There are no prizes for average performance.

Those who act receive the prizes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

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

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

I prize the privilege of being alone.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

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

The prize of all too precious you.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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

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

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

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

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

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

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

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

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

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

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

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

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

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

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.

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

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

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

Parts win prizes, not actors.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Youth without beauty is half a prize.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.