Prize Quotes

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

~ Amit Kalantri

Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets after me, canonise and celebrate me. They can make me the queen of their kingdom, the president of their nation. They can carry my picture in their wallets and whisper my name in their prayers but, tell me, what is all this worth if your voice isn’t the one calling me home?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give permission to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.

~ Mildred Armstrong Kalish

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.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I remember our childhood dayswhen life was easyand math problems hard.Mom would help us with our homeworkand dad was not at home but at work.After our chores, we’d go to the old fort museum with clips in our hair and pure joy in our hearts.You, sister, wore the bangles thatyou, brother, got as a prize from the Dentist.“Why the bangles?” the Dentist asked, surprised, for boys picked the stickers of cars instead.“They’re for my sisters,” you said.Mom would treat us to a bottle of Coke,a few sips each. Then,we’d buy the sweet smelling bread from the same white vanand hand-in-hand,we’d walk to our small flat above the restaurant.I remember our childhood days.Do you remember them too?

~ Kamand Kojouri

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

~ Oswald Chambers

Women aren't my competition because male attention and sexual objectification are not prizes for me.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

~ Angelica Hopes

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

Every dream has a price for its prize. I hope you are willing to pay for yours?

~ Hafiz

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is desirable. It is the confidence that He will come through with His promises and that what He promises is more to be desired than all the world.

~ John Piper

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, and their responsibilities have been decreed by our species... the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit - for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

~ John Steinbeck

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Nothing is free even in Freetown. You must pay a price to get a prize.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.

~ Drew Karpyshyn

Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

~ Toni Morrison

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

~ E.b. White

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.

~ Jake Colsen

Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. I suppose I should know who Pelops was?He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that.Hazel sniffed. How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race.

~ Rick Riordan

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

~ Ken Auletta

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

~ Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

~ Tom Lehrer