Quotes About Reward

the expectation of receiving a reward will transform the nature of the sacrifice.

One of the things that has always amazed me is how many people will work harder at doing something criminal, something that will make some fast cash but have a high risk of ruining their lives, than they will at doing something that's perfectly legitimate and can keep them happy for the rest of their days.

that spiritual goods are given to the just as the better [reward], while temporal goods may go to the unjust, but these are of course quite worthless

The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.

He felt the one experience sharpened the other. He said one feels one has earned a beer after cycling for a couple of hours and then the continued cycling afterwards gives one the satisfying feeling that one is working it off and will soon need another. In this way one can achieve a comfortable rhythm of exercise and relaxation getting neither fitter nor fatter.

At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Many who begin early will lose their reward (or not even actually come to a true faith in Christ and salvation) because they are approaching God in a false spirit, on the basis of their merit and not on the basis of His grace.

1856 a Virginia master offered "a reward of six cents for the apprehension of his boy 'Sam,' who absconded some time in the month of March.… He has a down look, and, on his back, wears the stripes of a recent whipping. One tooth is knocked out, and I believe he has a scar under the left

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

Blessed are the horny hands of toil!

Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell.

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?

I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Now. Having saved the entire human race from extinction I could do with a pizza. What say you to such a proposal?

We didn't use food as a reward. As some previous ASL researchers did. Jennie's reward was making herself understood. That is, she was rewarded like a human child would be rewarded. We wanted to replicate the way a human child acquires language. You don't cram food into an infant every time she says something, now, do you? Of course not.

To him that toileth God oweth glory, child of his toil.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil.

She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and she took pleasure in contacts with minds much less brilliant than her own. In short, she had a taste for people, all sorts of people—and not the same people the whole time.

Being a student is like someone behind the bars, only those who burn the midnight oil will get the certificate of freedom.