My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
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.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive
You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.