Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"There are no prizes for average performance."
Prize quotes
Prize
61 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Those who act receive the prizes."
Robert Kiyosaki
Businessman, Author
"Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours."
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
Henry James
Author
"Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize."
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"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command."
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"Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre"
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"Men prize the thing ungained more than it is."
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"The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned."
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"The prize of all too precious you."
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"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."
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"Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything."
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"He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth."
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"If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize."
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"It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor."
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"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."
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"Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values."
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"I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners."
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