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

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn’t take it because I was still an amateur.

Zawadi bora ya maisha kwa mwanadamu si fursa ya kufanya kazi kwa bidii na kuwa kitu fulani katika jamii. Ni amani ya Mungu katika moyo wa mwanadamu.

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...

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

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....

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

Journalists prize independence – not teamwork.

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

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

What if guns shot clouds, rather than bullets? Then they’d not only be peaceful, but they’d be delayed water guns. Is there a Nobel Farm Prize?

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

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

Give me prize, save your praise.

No institution of learning of Ingersoll’s day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned...

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.

The long road to success isn’t meant to discourage and stress you; rather, it’s only for the purpose of adding value to the prize you seek.

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...

Dip your serenity in serendipity and let the surprise be your prize

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...

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....

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

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

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.