Reward Quotes

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

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Love is love's reward.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

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.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.

It is the American way to reward ability.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

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.