Top 100 Reward Quotes
#1. and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This
Ayn Rand
#2. If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
George Will
#3. Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
Bruce Lee
#4. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#5. Modern amorists are sometimes taken aback at the prospect of investing in a relationship with no guarantee of reward. It is precisely that absence, however, that separates gift from shrewdness. Love cannot be extracted, commanded, demanded, or wheedled. It can only be given. (208)
Thomas Lewis
#6. I prefer noodles when they're raw, they taste just as good, but reward you with a satisfying crunch...
Callum Horncastle
#7. The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.
Gerry Beckley
#8. If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward.
Chris Christie
#9. Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.
Sun Simiao
#11. The bravest are the most vulnerable; they are also the ones most capable of reward.
Toni Sorenson
#12. Do not reward performance.
Rather, respond to Spirit
expressing the Way. You are a
mirror with which your child
sees - and corrects - himself.
Vimala McClure
#13. You may think you're getting the short end of the stick, but when it's all said and done, God will make sure that you don't lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He'll make sure you get your just reward. Your responsibility is to remain calm and peaceable even when those around you are not.
Joel Osteen
#14. Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.
Alfie Kohn
#15. There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.
(Against Fortunatus)
Augustine Of Hippo
#18. It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
Hortense Odlum
#19. The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all ... If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#20. This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.
W.H. Davies
#21. God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#22. A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
George R R Martin
#23. LOST 2 Irish Hellhounds. Very black, like bear. Huge, like bear. Answer to Alvin and Mohammed. Like to eat everything. Like bear! REWARD!
Christopher Moore
#24. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
Bill Bryson
#25. When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.
George Stevens Jr.
#26. In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
Ron Fournier
#27. I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.
Lysa TerKeurst
#28. An Iranian foundation offered the earthly reward of $3 million.
Nick Cohen
#29. Most of our decision making was shaped by somatic states related to punishment and reward. But
Antonio R. Damasio
#30. Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fuller
#31. Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.
Peter James West
#33. Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
Charles L. Allen
#34. for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.
Matthew Henry
#35. Have you heard the saying 'The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel'?
Terry Pratchett
#37. We support all actions that lead to the joy, the fun, the reward, the challenge, and the adventure of reading.
Paul Acampora
#39. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#40. The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.
Miguel Ruiz
#41. Patience is all that I have had for fifteen years, more grey hairs, rotted teeth and the continuing decline of my Kingdom my only reward. Patience, Magnar, has overdue debts to be paid.
(King Klonag)
Adrian G. Hilder
#42. For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
John Hickenlooper
#43. The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event.
Matthew Donnelly
#44. You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.
Christopher Moore
#45. Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.
Simone Weil
#46. The frame is the reward of the artist.
Edgar Degas
#47. There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.
Michael Marshall Smith
#48. You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.
John Updike
#49. The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
Margaret Mead
#50. The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
Andrew Carnegie
#51. My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
Walt Disney
#52. People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
Claire Danes
#53. Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.
Boethius
#55. Faith is to believe that which you do not yet see; and the reward of this faith is to see that which you believe. - Saint Augustine of Hippo P.g64
Rhonda Byrne
#56. Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
#57. The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures
these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
Howard Mumford Jones
#58. Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.
Paul Parker
#59. There is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.
Malcolm Gladwell
#60. I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.
Bernard Cornwell
#61. The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
Paul Stanley
#63. Women continue to reward bold moves made by men because of the confidence it displays.
Roosh V
#64. In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
Amy Tan
#65. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman
#66. There's no narrative to your life, no arc, no reward for achieving all of the things you want. That kind of thinking is a recipe for a you-centric world view and is a very lonely road. Focus instead on the role you play in the stories of others..
Justin McElroy
#68. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#69. Walter Mischel and his students exposed four-year-old children to a cruel dilemma. They were given a choice between a small reward (one Oreo), which they could have at any time, or a larger reward (two cookies) for which they had to wait 15 minutes under difficult conditions.
Daniel Kahneman
#70. There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life's reward.
Bryant McGill
#71. By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter.
Anne Bronte
#72. In this nominally freer and more equal world, most women end up doing more work, for less reward, and feeling pressured to conform more closely to gender norms.
Laurie Penny
#73. They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.
Helen Simonson
#74. Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard Bach
#75. To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather
#76. What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the work, you will find your reward in that.
Leo Tolstoy
#77. The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours.
Anne Bronte
#78. Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
Penn Jillette
#79. I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.
Sidney Crosby
#80. Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#81. I decided that ten positions would be sufficient initially. More could be learned if the initial encounter was successful. It did not take long - less time than learning the cha-cha. In terms of reward for effort, it seemed strongly preferable to dancing and I was greatly looking forward to it.
Graeme Simsion
#82. I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
Bob Dylan
#83. Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Izaak Walton
#84. Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward.
David Hewson
#86. The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
Guy Finley
#88. In C++, reinvention is its own reward.
Erik Naggum
#89. He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward.
Primo Levi
#91. What are we toasting?" I ask, slightly bemused. "Reward for employer of the year?"
It's a dumb joke, and I almost groan at my own crappy attempt at humour. Our glasses clink and Hue just sighs.
"My only reward will be the sweet embrace of death
Ruby Nox
#92. I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
Sophia Loren
#93. Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.
Jay S. Walker
#94. I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#95. Forgive but punish bad behavior, reward the good ones and celebrate the victories and lessons learned.
Ben Tolosa
#96. Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.
Marcus Aurelius
#97. Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
Seth Godin
#98. Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.
Russell Kirk
#99. Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.
Clare Of Assisi
#100. It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Gloria Steinem
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