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Quotes About Prize

Justice didn't compensate for the loss of human life. Justice was an intellectual concept, inevitably trumped by emotion. Justice was the word we used when we couldn't have what we really wanted, which was everything back the way it was. Justice was only a consolation prize. She
~ Lisa Scottoline
At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize.
~ Lloyd Alexander
This is a true prophecy, as true as yours ever were. When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sundered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't . . . quite know how to put it." He searched for, and rather to his surprise found, that odd calm place inside, still there. It helped. "Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." "Oh," said Gregor.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
~ Louisa May Alcott
My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A secret of growth is to never lose sight of the quiet place within you, the silent harbor of the Lord's presence. Enjoy your memories from days of old, but prize nothing more than the Lord and the value He places on each day.
~ Ruth Myers
I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.
~ Sparky Anderson
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
~ Homer
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
~ Terry Pratchett
Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them "wonderful and truly original," agreed with him that, regrettably, "precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize." Schoenberg's response was not to abandon the project but to expand it.
~ Allen Shawn
Later, she would question what life might have been like with someone who saw her as more than a gleaming trophy—a prize who began to lose her luster the moment she was won.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Learn to cherish the chase as much as you treasure the trophy.
~ Joe Caruso
Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize;
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.
~ E. Lockhart
For the old people in my family (...) the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.
~ E. Lockhart
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
~ Ed Asner
There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner, whose novels and essays provide us a comprehensive portrait of industrial society in all its glittering corruption and radiant evil.
~ Edward Abbey
The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,The homely hen lays one.The codfish never cacklesTo tell you what she's done.And so we scorn the codfish,While the humble hen we prize,Which only goes to show youThat it pays to advertise.
~ Anonymous
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
~ Anonymous
When the archer shoots for no particular prize, he has all his skills; when he shoots to win a brass buckle, he is already nervous; when he shoots for a gold prize, he goes blind, sees two targets, and is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, but the prize divides him. He cares! He thinks more of winning than of shooting, and the need to win drains him of power.
~ Anthony de Mello
The great Chinese sage Tranxu puts it marvelously: "When the archer shoots for nothing, he has all his skill. When he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. When he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind. He's out of his mind. He sees two targets. His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting. And the need to win drains him of power.
~ Anthony de Mello
If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.
~ Anthony Horowitz