Trophies Quotes

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves

I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.

You can’t fix who you are on your own, but God is in the business of transforming broken girls into beautiful trophies of His grace.

Paula Hendricks

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

Israelmore Ayivor

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

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