Reward Quotes

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

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

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

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.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.