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Quotes About Rewards

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
~ R. Kelly
You will learn that living with ASD can have many challenges, but also great rewards that are uniquely yours to cherish.
~ Sally Ozonoff
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
~ David Soul
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
~ Diane Cilento
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
~ Richard Powers
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
~ Theodore Parker
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
~ Craig Johnston
But I believe also the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always a sense of the sacredness of the person who is the object... When you love someone to the degree you love her, you see her as God sees her, and that is an instruction in the nature of God and humankind and of Being itself.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone
~ Mario Puzo
But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed.
~ Mario Puzo
The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God.
~ Mark Helprin
It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.
~ Mark Steyn
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
~ Anthony Bourdain
you commit to doing something that will serve more than just yourself—some would call it luck or coincidence. I leave it to you to decide what to believe. Just know that when you give your all, the rewards are infinite.
~ Anthony Robbins
The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them.
~ Sigmund Freud
When [women] understand that the penalties are the same whether we disobey a little or disobey completely, but that the rewards come only when we disobey completely, then we are ready to be free.
~ Sonia Johnson
Double advantage points! I mean, it's just free money, isn't it?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Life's biggest rewards come from the biggest challenges
~ Greg Behrendt
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.
~ Ian Gardner
A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
~ J. G. Holland
Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
~ James Thurber
Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.
~ Jim Rohn
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
~ John Piper
If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.
~ John Piper