Quotes by prize
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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
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Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.
Source: Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958) -
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
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He who refuses to embrace an unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
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I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They're making money. Everybody's making money. That's what this is all about.
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I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
Source: From Ashes to Glory -
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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