Reward Quotes

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

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.

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

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

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 body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

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.

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 reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

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.