Rewards famous quotes
05-15-2025
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It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
-- Adam Gopnik -
It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
-- Alan Hansen -
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-- Albert Einstein -
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
-- Alfie Kohn -
Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
-- Alfie Kohn -
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 -
Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting
-- Amish Tripathi -
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
-- Amy Tan -
Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.
-- Andrew Graham-Dixon -
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
-- Anna Held -
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
-- Anne Bancroft -
Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.
-- Anodea Judith -
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
-- Antonin Sertillanges -
The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.
-- Arlene Blum -
I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.
-- Ato Boldon -
I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
-- Barack Obama -
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
-- Barbara Sher -
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
-- Bear Bryant -
It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
-- Bear Bryant -
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 -
Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.
-- Ben Huh -
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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 -
A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.
-- Bill Cosby -
The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.
-- Bill Courtney -
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
-- Bill Hybels -
For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
-- Bill W. -
Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.
-- Bill Withers -
I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality
-- Billy Graham -
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
-- Billy Sunday -
I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
-- Bob Dylan -
In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.
-- Bobbejaan Schoepen -
For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.
-- Bobby Knight -
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
-- Bodhidharma -
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
-- Boethius -
Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.
-- Brad Thor -
Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.
-- Brad Warner -
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
-- Brian Tracy -
The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.
-- Brian Weiss -
To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.
-- Brian Weiss -
There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.
-- Brian Wong -
The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.
-- Bruce Barton -
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 -
Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
-- Bruce Tulgan -
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
-- Burt Lancaster -
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
-- C. S. Lewis -
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
-- C.D. Wright -
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
-- Carlos Slim -
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
-- Carol Ryrie Brink -
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
-- Catherine the Great -
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
-- Catherine the Great -
Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
-- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.
-- Charles A. Reich -
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
-- Charles Babbage -
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones
-- Charles Darwin -
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
-- Charles Duhigg -
We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.
-- Charles Koch -
Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.
-- Charles M. Blow -
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.
-- Charles Shaar Murray -
One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
-- Christoph Waltz -
Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
-- Clayton Christensen -
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 -
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)
-- Connie Brockway -
The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.
-- Dalai Lama -
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 -
The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.
-- Dana Stabenow -
When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.
-- David Caruso -
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!
-- David L. Katz -
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
-- David McCullough -
The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
-- David Platt -
People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
-- David Shore -
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
-- David Soul -
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
