Reward Quotes

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.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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.

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.

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.

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

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

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.

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.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Love is love's reward.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

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.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.