Prize Quotes

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?"

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

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

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

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

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

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

If you could clearly envision the reality of the prize ahead, then only you could prevent yourself from proclaiming it.

Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

The most important key to attaining any prize, is to never take your mental eye off from it.

Every dream has a price for its prize. I hope you are willing to pay for yours?

The struggles and challenges that come before winning any tangible prize are the things that make it very valuable.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)

If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

There is no medal for the best beggar of the world. Nobody celebrates beggars.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.

When it's your time you will walk right into your blessing.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi

Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.

The job of the United Nations is to grow more flowers, more smiles and more beauty on the earth. Once effect is created, cause will follow,

A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.

Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play ground of the nuclear arms of the evil forces.

Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy.

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle.

Don’t settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day.

When you believe it, you've created it, whatever it is

Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.