Top 100 The Prize Quotes
#1. To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius
#2. I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
Bill McCartney
#3. Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey.
Matt Serra
#4. If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
Michel De Montaigne
#5. You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
Phil Ochs
#6. When you decided to share your dreams with others be aware of discouraging response. Don't try to justify yourself when it happens. Keep calm and keep your eyes on the prize (your dreams).
Euginia Herlihy
#7. When lions fight over a goat, it's usually the hyena that gets away with the prize.
Ashwin Sanghi
#8. But in the kingdom of God the very least and the very weakest may shine if they will. Not only can one obtain the prize, but all may have it if they will.
D.L. Moody
#9. The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato
#10. Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.
Megan Whalen Turner
#11. It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.
Ford Madox Ford
#12. Spiritual giants are only willing, available and thirsty spiritual babies who paid the price for the prize, who waged a war for the victims to become victors, just like the courageous Davids that kill the big Goliaths.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#13. The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society.
M.C. Mary Kom
#14. I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
Mario Batali
#15. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
#16. In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.
Frederick Soddy
#17. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#18. Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#19. The ones who win usually don't need the prize.
Jake Colsen
#21. Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.
Andrew Harvey
#22. With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.
Jason Gedrick
#23. Lillian was always so good at treating everything like a test, like some kind of game where the prize was shiny and untouchable. Perfection. She wanted me to back off, butt out, stop trying to control her life. And she wanted me to save her.
Brenna Yovanoff
#24. to earn the prize of being taken seriously among Nigerians in America, among Africans in America, indeed among immigrants in America, she needed more years.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#25. but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)
Norman Vincent Peale
#26. Far must thy researches go
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fullness makes us wise,
Buried deep truth e'er lies.
Friedrich Schiller
#27. "Keep your eyes on the prize," although I think he should have also said "Go after the prize," too; and maybe that's why prizes ever came his way, because all he ever did was look at them.
Neal Shusterman
#28. Shall I be car-ri-ed toe the skies, on flow'ry beds of ease, Whilst others fight to win the prize, and sail thro' blood-y seas? He
Mark Twain
#29. The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.
James L. Nelson
#30. To find why this sheep's wool was red; and the prize was awarded to a learned man of the North, who demonstrated by A plus B minus C divided by Z, that the sheep must be red, and die of the rot.
Voltaire
#31. Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Gene Tunney
#32. Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
Isaac Watts
#33. Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.
Chris Claremont
#34. For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
Robert Browning
#35. Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.
John Milton
#36. O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
Alexander Pope
#37. In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
Lesley Manville
#38. The attraction here is based on man's need to conquer and tame, but also to hoard and deprive others of the prize.
Francisco X Stork
#39. Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
Richard Harris
#40. 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
#41. The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.
Martin Chalfie
#42. It is my express wish that in awarding the 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
#43. The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
Jorge Luis Borges
#44. Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
George Bernard Shaw
#46. Winning = adaptation and one step forward to take the prize
Jury Nel
#47. In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author ... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Banks
#48. The reward of running - of anything - lies within us ... We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that it's the process of reaching for that prize - not the prize itself - that can bring us peace and joy.
Scott Jurek
#49. Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.
Bill Walsh
#50. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry
#51. May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith ...
Angela Thomas
#52. All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller
#53. Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?
Jane Austen
#54. 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
#56. We are engaged in a good cause, fight under a good Captain, the victory is sure beforehand, and the prize is a crown - a crown of eternal life.
John Newton
#57. Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
Confucius
#59. It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
Homer
#60. It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the prize rather than the outrageously lucky winner.
Stephenie Meyer
#61. Keep your eyes on the prize and know that the trials are only for a while, so smile.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#62. His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
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John Bunyan
#63. (Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win "the prize" of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#64. It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.
Sol Yurick
#65. The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.
Patrick Dixon
#66. When you don't become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.
T.D. Jakes
#67. Keep walking forward on the road of life ... don't look backwards. The prize you are searching for is ahead of you ... not behind you!
Timothy Pina
#68. [?] Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#69. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream ... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#71. The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.
George R R Martin
#73. We are in a battle this side of heaven, there's no doubt about it. But in the midst of that battl the church has to realize that people are not the enemy; people are the prize.
Britt Merrick
#74. Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.
Terry Rossio
#75. Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, convince themselves that the road ahead is still too long, the inclines too steep, the loneliness impossible to bear and the prize itself of doubtful value.
Thabo Mbeki
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories
Joseph Dunn
#79. Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)
Richard Baxter
#80. The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
Kenneth G. Wilson
#81. I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#82. We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused ... You have been described, do not accept any other description!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#83. Let it go, shake it off, and press on toward the blessings that God has in store for you. Keep your eyes on the prize of a higher calling.
Farshad Asl
#84. Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas.
Josh Hinds
#85. Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
John Quincy Adams
#86. You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
Sam Nunn
#87. Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
Joseph Hopkinson
#88. There is an incredible feeling of strength that comes with walking through the fires of Hell and coming out with the prize. The prize, that part of oneself that is rescued, is the confidence that comes with facing down seemingly insurmountable odds and coming out better than when you went in.
Jaq D. Hawkins
#89. This was because Benny Bianchi was always going to be a promise at the same time Benny Bianchi was the prize at the end of a crazy life.
Kristen Ashley
#90. Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
Margot Fonteyn
#91. The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.
Orrin Woodward
#92. 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
#93. Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?
Ernest Hemingway,
#94. The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
August Krogh
#95. Sometimes, you're going to have to work hard, sometimes extra hard, and sometimes you still won't get that recognition. That's life. That's the way it is. But if you keep working, eventually you'll get the prize you're seeking.
Ryan Howard
#96. 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
#97. I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen.
Thomm Quackenbush
#98. Said Pinocchio's lover, midst sighs,
My puppet's technique takes the prize.
He gives me full measure
Through dishonest pleasure:
I sit on his face and he lies.
Jennifer Kaufman
#99. Change had made all of that possible. It led me down a sometimes terrifying road, but the prize at the end made the journey to get there somehow less impossible
Liz Schulte
#100. A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.
Joan Didion
