Quotes About Reward

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

It's true that the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

You invest a lot in your kids, from the sleepless nights early on and the frightening trips to the emergency room, to homework assignments and a million miles of taxi driving. The great thing is that everything you put in counts, and with a bit of luck, one day they will realize it. Love adds up to something. It's indestructible and immortal and carries long on after your own life is over. Who could ask for more?

Love in response to goodness isn't love, but reward. Fortunately for us, that's not God's way. Our relationship with God is not a matter of reward, but of love. And that's why we can enjoy such staggering freedom in his presence.

If you make a commitment to living within your means and using menu planning as a helpful tool, you might have to put in some extra effort and research, but the rewards can be incredibly delicious as you save money and expand your culinary expertise.

Gambling isn't fun; winning is fun.

Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn't there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.

If holy words could not offer up an answer to despair, then what good were they? If the truths so revealed did not invite restitution, then their utterance was no more than a curse. And if the restitution is found not in the mortal realm, then we are invited to inaction, and indifference. Will you promise to a soul a reward buried in supposition? Are we to reach throughout our lives but never touch? Are we to dream and to hope, but never know?

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

That is why I can never walk away from wrestling because there's this moment - the bell rings and everything slips away. The path, the future. There's nothing but that moment right in front of you where the intensity is high, the risk and reward are high, and you have to enter into a mental state that doesn't allow for hesitation.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

I was smarter when I was 15, 16 than when I was 18 to 26, because instead of caving in to being cool, I stuck close to my convictions and I was rewarded.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.

I then tell myself that the result is pitiful but the struggle worth it because I looked at color and I looked at the night and the river like I never had before and saw what I take so for granted with new eyes. Is there any activity that so rewards failure? These are toads that become flowers.

The good that we do sinks into history like rainfall into the earth. The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.

The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.

TESTIMONY TIME: Day 4 I learned in the fast to never sacrifice the tithe. God will not only take care of you but reward you. Mellissa

We are told, "You're a good boy," or "You're a good girl," when we do what Mom and Dad want us to do. When we don't, we are "a bad girl" or "a bad boy." When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward.