Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil,… — Max Perutz
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It… — Rajneesh
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
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… — Thomas Jefferson
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having… — Rajneesh
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most,… — Dante Alighieri
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won… — Unknown Author
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson
O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize. — Avicii
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. — Sebastian Coe
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. — Patrick Modiano
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face… — Ezra Taft Benson
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite… — Jean Tirole
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. — Brian Tracy
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… — Spike Lee
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded… — Robert Graves
"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil… — Dick Cheney
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of… — Isaac Asimov
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is… — Alexander Morozevich

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