Top 96 Work Rewards Quotes
#1. Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.
Teju Cole
#2. The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
Geoffrey Canada
#3. When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.
Toni Braxton
#4. The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.
Connie Zweig
#5. What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.
Jonathan Tucker
#6. 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
#7. You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.
Robin Leach
#8. We will drink what we thirst for and eat what we hunger for if we allow ourselves to be used for what we were created for!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.
Alan Rufus
#10. Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.
Gary Paulsen
#11. Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.
Ralph Marston
#13. Photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?
Larry Towell
#14. Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.
Susan Sontag
#16. Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
David McCullough
#17. Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Abraham Maslow
#18. Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.
Donald Trump
#19. There are no consequences for poor work ethic and no rewards for good work ethic.
Alexandra Robbins
#20. 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
#21. I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.
Oscar De La Renta
#22. I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.
Eva Longoria
#23. On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM)
Nanci McGraw
#24. Work hard,
and you will earn good rewards.
Work smart,
and you will earn great rewards.
Work hard and work smart,
and you will earn extraordinary rewards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
Henry Taube
#26. In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
Euripides
#27. You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#28. I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.
Natalie Portman
#29. He created a craving. And that craving, it turns out, is what makes cues and rewards work. That craving is what powers the habit loop.
Charles Duhigg
#30. In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.
John Naisbitt
#31. 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
#32. The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
D.T. Suzuki
#33. There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.
Jesse Metcalfe
#34. Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.
Joan Marques
#36. The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
Daniel H. Pink
#37. I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.
Maynard Webb
#38. The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
Edmund Phelps
#39. 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
#40. No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
Anthony Bourdain
#41. I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and
spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.
Bear Bryant
#42. The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
William J. Clinton
#44. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
Randy Schekman
#45. In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.
E. Lockhart
#46. When you work, you are mining for success; rewards are disguised as work.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. It is the work and not the reward that is precious.
Leo Tolstoy
#48. 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
#49. You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
Phil McGraw
#50. 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
#51. Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
Livy
#53. found myself working hard for mediocre pay and mediocre rewards, doing mediocre work that bored me but that I felt I shouldn't complain about.
Johnny B. Truant
#54. Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find.
Steve Pavlina
#55. The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#56. He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it - it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That's politics....
Kim Stanley Robinson
#57. Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
Susan Powter
#58. It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis
#59. The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
Benjamin Spock
#60. I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#61. The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
Christine Pelosi
#62. It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.
Richard Branson
#63. What better reward than to see others excited by your work?
Jean Louis
#64. A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
G.K. Chesterton
#65. There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
Moliere
#66. I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#68. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.
Bruce Campbell
#69. Always work harder than other people are willing to work. Sweat more, endure more pain, and then reap the rewards of success and achievement.
Robert Cheeke
#70. Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#71. To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you'll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day.
Veronica Lawlor
#72. The reward is found in the work.
Bruce Lee
#73. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques
#74. Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.
Paul G. Hoffman
#75. The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work.
Kevin Hart
#76. Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#77. What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
Jesse Helms
#78. The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.
Neil A. Fiore
#79. In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
John Banville
#80. Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears
Steven Runciman
#81. Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile have found that external rewards and punishments - both carrots and sticks - can work nicely for algorithmic tasks. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.
Daniel H. Pink
#82. Life on a farm was fraught with hard work that reaped greater rewards ...
It was the things in life that required hard work that meant the most to her.
Sarah Price
#83. In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
William Barclay
#84. Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
Felix Rohatyn
#85. The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
Steven Pressfield
#86. Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.
Robert Rankin
#87. The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.
Robin Leach
#88. The reward for good work is more work.
Tom Sachs
#89. Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
Ebenezer Elliott
#90. Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
Iain Duncan Smith
#91. There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.
John Calvin
#92. However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives.
Charles Duhigg
#93. As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.
Randy Pausch
#94. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.
Michael Dorris
#95. It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.
Jon Michaelsen
#96. You have to do more than just talk about work. You have to really reward the people who are out there doing it.
Chris Christie
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