Top 100 Quotes About Rewards
#1. Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.
Jason Hartman
#2. True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards
Dean Cavanagh
#3. Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.
John Webster
#4. if-then" rewards usually do more harm than good. By neglecting the ingredients of genuine motivation - autonomy, mastery, and purpose - they limit what each of us can achieve.
Daniel H. Pink
#5. Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.
Alan Rufus
#6. The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.
Derrick Jensen
#7. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
Franco Modigliani
#8. God has reserved momentous victories and great rewards for us, but we'll never make it to our milestones if we can't make it through our moments.
Beth Moore
#9. Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.
Susan Ford
#10. Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.
Greg Louganis
#12. Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.
John C. Bogle
#13. There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.
Seneca The Younger
#14. I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
Jim Rohn
#15. The use of powerful systematic reward procedures to promote increased engagement in target activities may also produce concomitant decreases in task engagement, in situations where neither tangible nor social extrinsic rewards are perceived to be available.7
Alfie Kohn
#16. Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
#17. When he squirmed away from her, I felt the strangest mix of emotions. First, I wanted to jump into Joshua's arms and give him a series of grateful kisses - rewards for his apparent disinterest in her. Next, I wished I was substantial enough to tackle this stranger and pull out her pretty hair
Tara Hudson
#18. We should all live a life of hobbies. Doing only what gives us pleasure, only what rewards us in secret, private ways.
Steven Erikson
#19. The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention - and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.
Ezra Pound
#20. Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to know your True Self. Trust yourself in a deeper way & reap the rewards!
Michael Beckwith
#21. America's corporate and political elites
now form a regime of their own and
they're privatizing democracy. All the
benefits - the tax cuts, policies and
rewards flow in one direction: up.
Bill Moyers
#22. Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Alfie Kohn
#23. I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.
Trip Lee
#25. One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.
Jonas Salk
#26. Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.
Melissa Gilbert
#27. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#28. The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
Gertrude B. Elion
#29. Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation
reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.
Lilian Katz
#30. I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.
Michael Jackson
#31. Rewards are not an entitlement, they have to be deserved, they have to be earned.
Murad S. Shah
#32. And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
Plato
#33. The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.
Games Workshop
#34. Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.
Iain Sinclair
#35. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
Richard Bach
#36. Ignite your inner light,
and you will earn many rewards.
Ignite the inner light in others,
and you will earn countless rewards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#37. The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.
Charles Duhigg
#38. I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.
Archie Carr
#39. Do more, give more, try harder, aim higher, and give thanks. The rewards will be yours.
Zig Ziglar
#40. The hidden hand of ambition is in the rewards of the determined.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
Benjamin Jowett
#42. You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
Craig Johnston
#43. The point is, you are capable of change! Life is what you make of it! Use this self-help program to make it all you want it to be. Don't spend your life waiting for your luck to change. Make your own good luck by changing the way you respond. Go for it! The rewards are immeasurable.
Jonathan Berent
#44. Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
David Soul
#45. Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#46. The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers?
James Adams
#47. But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
Banksy
#48. Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
Billie-Jo Williams
#49. Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
Alfie Kohn
#50. The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.
Seth Godin
#51. A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Harry Golden
#52. Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
Michael O'Brien
#53. Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made.
June Stoyer
#54. Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
Barry Schwartz
#55. In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.
Sumner Redstone
#56. To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu
#58. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Samuel Johnson
#59. The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.
Bertrand Russell
#61. Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.
Edward Rutherfurd
#62. Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.
Sayyid Qutb
#63. All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
Bear Grylls
#64. Only contingent rewards - if you do this, then you'll get that - had the negative effect. Why? "If-then" rewards require people to forfeit some of their autonomy.
Daniel H. Pink
#65. Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.
Dick Francis
#66. Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them
Dan Schilling
#67. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
#68. Stalking's when you follow the person and won't leave them alone. Waiting is different. It's a form of tribute, like a vigil, and fate rewards it.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#69. My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't. I didn't want the reviews to say, "Mel Brooks has made another movie," and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph.
Mel Brooks
#70. That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
Sebastian Faulks
#71. There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#72. What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when a society rewards them for this type of behavior?
Daniel Greenfield
#73. Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.
Charles Caleb Colton
#74. Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.
David Limbaugh
#75. As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.
Duane Elgin
#76. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards. And often it is best for us not to pay the price, for the price might be our integrity.
Epictetus
#77. What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.
Jonathan Tucker
#78. God rewards the person who is diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them.
Greg Laurie
#79. The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
Bear Grylls
#80. Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.
Frederick Lenz
#82. If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?
James Rozoff
#83. Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant desire for social success and the material rewards that accompany it.
Sonia Maasik
#84. An intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into material rewards
Napoleon Hill
#85. Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.
Ralph Marston
#86. Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.
Ron Wyden
#87. Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
#88. Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
Maria Montessori
#90. Few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.
Leonard Mlodinow
#92. To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.
Robin Sharma
#93. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In
Raoul Martinez
#94. The troubling truth is that rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much.
Alfie Kohn
#95. The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Juvenal
#96. If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Paul Bryant
#97. We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
PZ Myers
#98. People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting
Amish Tripathi
#99. So when a colleague stops you in the hallway at work to say hello and ask about your day, the brief interaction actually sparks a continual upward spiral of happiness and its inherent rewards.
Shawn Achor
#100. What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.
Lee Labrada
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