(211 quotes found)
“B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view”
Robert Paul Smith
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
Kahlil Gibran
“He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones”
German Proverb
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
Lao Tzu
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P”
Nelson Mandela
“Who misses, or who wins the prize?Go, lose and conquer as you can:But if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind”
Daphne Du Maurier
“As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”
Katharine Hepburn
