Quotes about Prize
The codfish lays ten thousands eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize, Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise.
- Anonymous
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
- Stephen Hawking
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush
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
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
They kept playing until Gervaso had won more than five thousand dollars and quit because he was drawing too much attention.
- Richard Paul Evans
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.
- Sam Storms
The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
- Walt Whitman
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.
- LeBron James