Quotes About Eye On The Prize

#1. I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#2. I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#3. Reach for the sky
Keep your eye on the prize
Forever in my mind
Be my golden sunshine
It's raining in your mind
So push them clouds aside
Forever by my side
You're my golden sunshine

Matisyahu

#4. Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey.

Matt Serra

#5. Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you're trying to do, what your value is, why it's important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market's telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?

Steve Case

#6. One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and as long as you feel that you're right with your creator and you're right yourself, then other people's opinions really don't matter.

Cathy Hughes

#7. Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.

Laura Benanti

#8. Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

Erin Andrews

#9. You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

Alice McDermott

#10. Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Macklemore

#11. I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

Kid Ink

#12. We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced and remain convinced now that, after Hitler , Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

Martin Niemoller

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

John Milton

#14. O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Alexander Pope

#15. The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

Larry Bird

#16. To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood ...

Henry Newbolt

#17. Smokers are the lepers of the twenty-first century.

Jim Stevens

#18. To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

Thomas Traherne

#19. To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.

Anne Ellis

#20. Tony got up from his desk and crouched down beside her. She was instantly aware of the smell of him, a mixture of shampoo and his own fain, animal scent.

Val McDermid

#21. I hope one day, darling, that you will know the touch of a man who loves you. I pray you will know how wonderful that is. How rare and beautiful. How godly. Even if it isn't within the union of marriage. It isn't wrong. Nothing is more right.

Jessica Gadziala

#22. Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.

Frances J Roberts

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

William J. Clinton

#24. American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression.

Erik Larson

#25. The Gospel is true because it deprives men of all glory, wisdom, and righteousness and turns over all honor to the Creator alone. It is safer to attribute too much glory unto God than unto man.

Martin Luther

#26. If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

Gina Barreca

#27. That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent.

Sophy Burnham

#28. If something were to happen that went against our current understanding of reality, scientists would see that as a challenge to our present model, requiring us to abandon or at least change it. It is through such adjustments and subsequent testing that we approach closer and closer to what is true.

Richard Dawkins

#29. Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

Common

#30. Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi

Nicki Minaj

#31. Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

Dana Perino

#32. I tend to look at the good things about what's going on in life, and I do that the best I can. At the end of the day - I have felt outside at times - but always man, I keep my eyes on the prize and know that I can get inside if I choose.

Common

#33. Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its own magnificence.

W.B.Yeats

#34. I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Eliza Cook

#35. Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Dave Grohl

#36. We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

David Jeremiah

#37. A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Maximilian Schell

#38. We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#39. My husband loves me, this is great delight.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold.

Thomas Gray