Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold. — Anne Bradstreet
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything. — Marcus Aurelius
I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films. — Norman Jewison
Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize.… — Larry Flynt
The reward of running — of anything — lies within us … We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember… — Scott Jurek
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to… — Robert Osborne
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. — David Eddings
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. — Marcel Proust
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize.… — Saul Bellow
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize. — William Ralph Inge
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. — Robert Herrick
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as… — James Payn
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal… — Teresa of Avila
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay… — John Barth
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game… — John Lahr
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. — Amelie Nothomb
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to… — Keith O'Brien
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most… — Edward Mills Purcell
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story… — Ian Rankin
I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether… — Brad Renfro

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