Quotes About Prize

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it on my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:12–14)

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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

SALLY    Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.

Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it. The day you'll take it, hold it, you won't be afraid.

Women change things. She glanced up at him. Only women? People then. But women? They alter universe just by being women. For better or worse? Depends on the woman, doesn't it? She smiled. And the prize, or the man, she's set her sights on.

I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is 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.

Thou wishest fame! ambition in thy soul Bids thee toil onward to the distant goal, And holds the dazzling prize before the view, Fought for by many; gained by ah, how few!

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

But, although the future is unknowable, it is not unimaginable. As Ludwig von Mises put it: "The entrepreneurial idea that carries on and brings profit is precisely that idea which did not occur to the majority. It is not correct foresight as such that yields profits, but foresight better than that of the rest. The prize goes only to the dissenters, who do not let themselves be misled by the errors accepted by the multitude."6

Pride, O pride, thy prize!

My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.