Prize Quotes · Page 8

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

— Andrew Harvey

I believe that life is a prize but to live doesn't mean you're alive

— Nicki Minaj

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

— Philip Warren Anderson

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.

— Saul Bellow

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

— Judith Rich Harris

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning…

— Nelson Mandela

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

— Wendy Williams

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

— David Nicholls

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

— Sylvia Plath

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…

— Parker J. Palmer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

— Tom Lehrer

I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000.

— Tim Henman

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

— Pope Francis

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the…

— HoYeon Jung

I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar…

— Kaka

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong,…

— Henry Austin Dobson

Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is…

— Dennis Rodman

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great,…

— John Virgo

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA…

— Rick Strassman

It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.…

— Gena Showalter

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they…

— Daniel Defoe

I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat…

— Steve Jobs

There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one…

— Sandra Faber

I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow…

— Paul Dalio

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones…

— Richard Louv

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Lewis Schiff

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

— Jake LaMotta

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

— Sjon

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

— Emily Saliers

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

— Doris Lessing

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

— Irene Joliot-Curie

I've never really been an eye-on-the-prize person.

— Lily Gladstone

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

— Brian Tracy