Prize Quotes

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

“Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?"
"He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that."
Hazel sniffed. "How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
― Oswald Chambers

“It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.”
― Mildred Armstrong Kalish, Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, and their responsibilities have been decreed by our species... the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit - for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”
― John Steinbeck

“Whoever invented knock-knock jokes should get a no-bell prize.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Gags and Extracts

“Pick up the pieces, put it into sizes and your reward would be prizes.”
― Seun Ayilara

“No Nobel Prize for me this year. Maybe next year?”
― Steven Magee

“Every year I am so disappointed not to get a Nobel Prize!”
― Steven Magee

“Maybe next year for my Nobel Prize?”
― Steven Magee

“Based on past awards of the Nobel Prize, my work on ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ appears to be worthy.”
― Steven Magee

“Gwyn asked Az, her teal eyes bright, 'What do we get if we finish the course?'

Az's shadows danced around him. 'Since there's no chance in hell any of you will finish the course, we didn't bother to get a prize.'

Boos sounded. Gwyn lifted her chin in challenge. 'We look forward to proving you wrong.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Not every time does virtue reap the rewards, nor does folly always face the consequences.”
― Malar

“Dear Superwoman,
If it is the right move, move!
Do not fear to move because of detractors.
Be focused on the prize until you win.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“the bigger the price the harder it takes to win it”
― Manuel Corazzari

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”
― Steven Magee

“I was the assistant to Andrea Ghez, the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.”
― Steven Magee

“Ambition: Aspiring to be the first person in history to win all Nobel Prize categories.”
― Steven Magee

“The Nobel prizes are the Oscars of science.”
― Steven Magee

“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.”
― Steven Magee

“No Nobel Prize for me this year!”
― Steven Magee

“You have more chance of winning the lottery than a Nobel Prize.”
― Steven Magee

“Prayer and fasting is a vital process. It can unlock the storeroom of blessings. It helps you stay focused on the prize and strengthen you to work hard. A lot can be achieved through prayer and fasting because when God is in the picture, the future is bright.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

“The clouds may hide the moon, but not for long. Always keep your eyes fixed on the prize!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“One of the joys of being an Observing Assistant at the W. M. Keck Observatory was watching the scientists I had worked with going on to win the Nobel Prize.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to win a Nobel Prize, it pays to be associated with those that have won a Nobel Prize.”
― Steven Magee

“In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who “have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows.” Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it.

It is rumoured in the town that once, many years ago, a boy appeared who really never had done these things—or at all events, which was all that was required or could be expected, had never been known to do them—and thus won the crown of glory. He was exhibited for three weeks afterwards in the Town Hall, under a glass case.

What has become of the money since no one knows. They say it is always handed over to the nearest wax-works show.”
― Jerome K. Jerome