Reward Quotes

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.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

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.

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.