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Quotes About Reward

Accomplishment is the psychological reward for hard work. Money is the tangible reward for hard work. Godly influence is the spiritual reward for hard work.
~ Carolyn McCulley
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
~ Otto Preminger
The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.
~ Eric Close
I went to Villarreal for 30% less than I could have earned in Mexico.
~ Manuel Pellegrini
I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.
~ Satya Nadella
I would put my million dollars up as well.
~ James Randi
remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!
~ Thomas Brooks
Regression effects, in other words, serve to "punish the administration of reward, and to reward the administration of punishment."21
~ Thomas Gilovich
Readers who have owned animals will appreciate how difficult it would be to train a dog to play exclusively in his own yard, to fetch his sweater whenever he sees it is raining outside, or to be generous in sharing his dog biscuits with other dogs. Yet these same people would not even question the feasibility of trying to use reward and punishment to teach their children the same behaviors.
~ Thomas Gordon
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
~ Thomas Hardy
True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.
~ Thomas Merton
For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: its joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved...love, therefore, is its own reward.
~ Thomas Merton
The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climate of opinion that strikes fear into those who oppose their agenda but also by their ability to create a climate of opinion which richly rewards those political leaders whose decisions are consonant with the vision of the intelligentsia.
~ Thomas Sowell
Someone with an inborn knack for mathematics or music may be just as productive as someone who was born with lesser talents in these fields and who had to work very hard to achieve the same level of proficiency. However, we reward productivity rather than merit, for the perfectly valid reason that we know how to do it.
~ Thomas Sowell
More generally, confidence that an investment of labor and resources could claim its reward-whether at harvest time or when dividends were issued years later-has been crucial to the economic efforts which create national prosperity.
~ Thomas Sowell
La asunción de riesgos es la leche materna del capitalismo. The Wall Street Journal
~ Thomas Sowell
Perdida! Una hora de oro Con sus sesenta minutos de diamante No se ofrece recompensa Pues ¡Perdida está para siempre!
~ Katherine Mansfield
Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.
~ Kathryn Davis
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. -
~ Kathy Collins
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
~ Kathy Collins
Nothing simple is worth doing easily.
~ Keith D. Jones
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
~ Keith Henson
There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.
~ Keith Johnstone
Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.
~ Keith Johnstone