Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
Roberta Flack

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.
Guglielmo Marconi

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman Mailer

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.
Peter Gabriel

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
Kenneth G. Wilson

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
Philip Warren Anderson

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.
Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
George Wald

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.
Robert Hofstadter

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward M. Purcell

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Scheer

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

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
Philip Warren Anderson

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow