Trophy Quotes

“Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“I see birthdays as a reward for having shown up 365 in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It has little in common with the obsession of the politician or the artist, for instance, for both of these understand in a greater or lesser degree the impulse which drives them. But the sportsman fanatic - that is another matter entirely.

His thoughts fixed solely on a vision of that mounted trophy against the wall, the eyes now dead that were once living, the tremulous nostrils stilled, the sensitive pricked ears closed to sound at the instant when the rifle shot echoed from the naked rocks, this man hunts his quarry through some instinct unknown even to himself.

Stephen was a sportsman of this kind. It was not the skill needed that drove him, nor the delight and excitement of the stalk itself, but a desire, so I told myself, to destroy something beautiful and rare. Hence his obsession with chamois. ("The Chamois")”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

“If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like”
― Sonja Smolec

“People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Nobody ever gave away a trophy for reading books.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Putting on the collar is taking charge of unexpected situations. Keeping humans from taking control from me. To tell hunters that I'm not prey. Not a trophy by wearing the collar. I looked at the circlet again. Looking deeper, I see not subjugation, but a tool of power to control my fate in the world of man that symbolizes my ownership over both my nature spirit and wolf-self.”
― Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind

“Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.”
― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

“Never give up on the fight until you win the belt.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“It's not easy to be the best. But it helps if you're willing to buy your own trophies.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Maintain the name you build. It is easier to make a good brand than to maintain a good brand already made. Wining a trophy is not as difficult as defending it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Those who lift trophies of success are those who do what they do without stretching their necks to see “who else is doing what?”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.”
― Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves

“2018
Whether fan or whether foe,
Loyalty to city was the only way to go,
They now have a Lombardi Trophy to show,
Philadelphia Eagles stole the show”
― Charmaine J Forde

“BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm has just named YOU The Sexiest Person of The Year. For ONLY $19.95, we’ll send you a commemorative trophy.”
― Jarod Kintz, Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.”
― Meredith Marple, What Took So Long?: A Group-Phobic, Uncomfortable Competitor's Journey to Mahjong - A Memoir Essay

“Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“The crown of life, the trophy or the medal is meant for those that ended well not for those that have up along the way.”
― ikechukwu Izuakor , Great Reflections on Success

“This pain and suffering. This was my trophy ceremony.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life

“In a twisted sort of way, they are their father’s trophies. Relishing in every epicurean delight life has to offer.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Be no longer willing to be placed in someone’s personal trophy collection only to be dusted off and placed back at their discretion! You are a work of art, made for a museum full of the most valuable pieces! Be who you are, Be one of a kind, Be an ICON, BE AN ICONIC WORK OF ART!”
― Constance Delores Burrell, KYNG SUPA NOVA'S ADVENTURES OPERATION COVID-19: WITH FAMILY WE CAN CONQUER ALL

“I have a trophy cabinet. It’s called a fridge, and I keep my ketchup on the same shelf as my 1991 runner-up.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Stuttering was such a huge blow to the psyche, such that you felt like you had won a trophy if you spoke and did not stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia