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Quotes About Reward

Maybe it's all they were after, but gamblers gamble. It worked, as far as they're concerned.
~ J.D. Robb
La vida de la mente, piensa para sí: ¿a eso es a lo que nos hemos dedicado, yo y esos otros trotamundos solitarios en las entrañas del British Museum? ¿Nos espera alguna recompensa? ¿Se disipará nuestra soledad, o la vida de la mente es en sí misma una recompensa?
~ J.M. Coetzee
She shakes him; that is what she presumable does to other readers too. That is, presumably why, in the larger picture, she exists. What a strange reward for a lifetime of shaking people: to be conveyed to this town in Pennsylvania and given money!
~ J.M. Coetzee
El destino no era fácil, pero al final ofrecía su recompensa. Con el tiempo, todo lo que pasaba era exactamente lo que debía pasar.
~ J.R. Ward
There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.
~ Jack D. Schwager
If you don't stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.
~ Jack D. Schwager
My witness is the empty sky. My reward is the perfect blue sky at dawn in the desert in a bird-resounding riverbottom grove.
~ Jack Kerouac
To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.
~ Jack London
I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.
~ Sheryl Lee
If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.
~ Tim Howard
That's what we play for, that's why we show up every day, that's the ultimate goal, is to get a ring.
~ James Conner
I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
~ Brendan Fraser
To just to get up on stage and sing every night at 9 or 10 years old was unbelievable to me. It wasn't that I was getting paid; it was that I was getting paid to do what I like to do.
~ Tiffany Darwish
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
~ Blaise Pascal
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
~ Margaret Mead
Victory stands on the back of sacrifice
~ Lexa
If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.
~ Rabia Basri
One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.
~ Ibn Majah
The early bird catches the worm.
~ William Camden
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
~ Philo
The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.
~ Ibn Hazm
Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.
~ Vincent de Paul