Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Work hard at work worth doing.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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.
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.
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.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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.
Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.
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.
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.
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.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
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