Prize Quotes · Page 9

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

— Robert Browning

Their price is your LOYALTY...Your prize is their FIDELITY

— Jewel

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

— Joseph Benavidez

“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

President Trump is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, no doubt.

— Katie Britt

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

— George Carlin

In life, understanding is the booby prize.

— Werner Erhard

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

— Cecil Rhodes

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

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

— Wendy Williams

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

One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to…

— Anonymous

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get…

— Lisa Whelchel

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

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

— Kaka

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

In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal…

— Pope Francis

The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or…

— Saul Alinsky

We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,…

— Charlotte Bronte

If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the…

— Daniel Dennett

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every…

— Anonymous

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take…

— David Bennun

“The ones who win usually don't need the prize.”

— Jake Colsen

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.

— Hendrik Tennekes

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

— Philip Warren Anderson

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

— John Muir

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

— Steve Toltz

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

— Michael O'Leary

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

— Katharine Hepburn

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from…

— Vijay Seshadri