Reward Quotes

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

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.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.