Rewards From Quotes

#1. A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence.

Susan Cain

#2. 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

#3. My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.

Phoebe Damrosch

#4. The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

Darren Hardy

#5. 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

#6. I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

Woody Allen

#7. Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Tamora Pierce

#8. Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Clayton Christensen

#9. For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Bobby Knight

#10. All rewards have the same effect," one writer declares. "They dilute the pure joy that comes from success itself.

Alfie Kohn

#11. (Of course, other animals also respond to rewards and punishments, but only humans have proved able to channel this drive to develop everything from contract law to convenience stores.)

Daniel H. Pink

#12. The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.

John Dewey

#13. The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

Andrew Carnegie

#14. He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

Thomas Szasz

#15. It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

Jim Rohn

#16. Successful people ... focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

John C. Maxwell

#17. TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

Lord Acton

#19. Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Ashton Kutcher

#21. The rewards had to come from the joy of puzzling out the work itself, and from the private awareness I held that I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

Ken Donaldson

#23. Every human being is bound to taste death: and you shall receive your rewards in full on the Day of Resurrection. He who is kept away from the Fire and is admitted to Paradise, will surely triumph; for the life of this world is nothing but an illusory enjoyment.

Anonymous

#24. Rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes. This proposition is supported by much evidence from research on pigeons, rats, humans, and other animals.

Daniel Kahneman

#25. It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Sidney Altman

#26. We star-crossed lovers from District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek the fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving.

Suzanne Collins

#27. Games? Cupid struck, slapping Nico sideways into a granite pedestral Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work!
A quest that never ends. It demands everything from you
especially the truth. Only then does it yield rewards

Rick Riordan

#28. The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

Brian Tracy

#29. Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

Jentezen Franklin

#30. I don't like to lose-at anything ... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Serena Williams

#31. I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

Jack Nicklaus

#32. The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#33. 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

#34. There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.

Charles Spurgeon

#35. Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Ryan Lilly

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Alfie Kohn

#42. If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

Alfie Kohn

#43. The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Charles Stanley

#44. The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#45. Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.

Umar II

#46. While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

Janet Fitch

#47. In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.

Chris Avellone

#48. Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

Bob Lefsetz

#49. Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Compton Mackenzie

#50. Live so as to be detached from outcome. Do it all because it resonates with your highest self and responds to your beseeching inner voice - not because of rewards that might come your way.

Wayne W. Dyer

#51. And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Christopher Hitchens

#52. From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

Bill Bryson

#53. If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

Immanuel Kant

#54. I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.

Joanne Simpson

#55. The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by

Margaret Beckett

#56. Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Grover Cleveland

#57. The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

Dalai Lama XIV

#58. The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.

Jason Versey

#59. The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

Twyla Tharp

#60. Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.

David Weigel

#61. The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

Ayn Rand

#62. Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

Noam Chomsky

#63. On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

#64. Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning

Isabel Ramos

#65. We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.

Darynda Jones

#66. Life's biggest rewards come from the biggest challenges

Greg Behrendt

#67. Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Giacomo Leopardi

#68. Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Keith Henson

#69. I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Harriet Martineau

#70. Doubts are suppressed by groups ... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

Daniel Kahneman

#71. This is the situation in the public schools of America: The farther you travel from the classroom the greater your financial and professional rewards.

Frank McCourt

#72. Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#73. The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

Arlene Blum

#74. Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

Taufik Hidayat

#75. Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Ernest Bramah

#76. Success is in the journey, but the reward is the view from the top.

Larry Stevens

#77. We need to separate the real rewards that give our lives meaning from the false rewards that keep us distracted and addicted. Learning to make this distinction may be the best we can do.

Kelly McGonigal

#78. The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

Nassau William Senior