Prize Quotes

• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Square Deal". Theodore Roosevelt's speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

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• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Heart, Second Chance

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• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.

  William J. Clinton

  Eye, Rewards, Turns

  "Clinton tells Ulster 'don't turn back'" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Life, Lying, Struggle

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Thankful To God, Ideas, Thankfulness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Money, Fear, War

  "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.

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

  Katharine Hepburn

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• Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

  Aristotle

  Success, Men, Games

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• Look at what you could have won!

  Jim Bowen

  Winning, Games, Comedian

  "Bullseye", www.imdb.com. (1981– ).

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

  John Milton

  Rain, Eye, Judging

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 121

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• It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

  Alfred Nobel

  Wish, Consideration, Nobel

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• In war there is no prize for runner-up.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Philosophical, Runners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

  Gerald Early

  Taken, Winning, Style

  Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”

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• The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

  Norman Mailer

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Beautiful

  Norman Mailer (1973). “Marilyn: A Biography”, New York : Grosset & Dunlap

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• I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Peace

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• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Nobel, Persons

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Women, Humor

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

  Jose Saramago

  Gmos, Receiving, Habit

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Beer

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.15, Orient Blackswan

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• An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.

  Zhuangzi

  Archer, Clouds, Hands

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• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

  Victor Hugo

  Progress, Splendid, Daring

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• We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.144

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