Prize Quotes · Page 42

Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports…

— Gagan Narang

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

— Frank A. Clark

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

— Robert Kiyosaki

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals…

— Nelson Mandela

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and…

— Keith O'Brien

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

— Margot Fonteyn

I'm offering a special prize for the first Buick on the moon.

— George Carlin

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there…

— James Payn

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that…

— Joachim Frank

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of…

— Abraham Lincoln

I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick…

— Richard P. Feynman

“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his…

— Joseph Lewis

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

— Napoleon Hill

Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand…

— Laura Benanti

A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize.

— Daniel Yergin

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the…

— Samantha Stosur

There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle…

— Corey Flintoff

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

— Philip Warren Anderson

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what…

— Cesare Pavese

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

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel…

— Jay Michaelson

Well, to start, for me, at seven years old, I was on a television contest called 'The Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club.'…

— Leslie Uggams

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore;…

— Richard Gere