Quotes About Reward

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

Women continue to reward bold moves made by men because of the confidence it displays.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Pascal's Wager?" asked Dr. Trinh. "Pascal once said that you should believe in God because, if you turned out to be wrong, you weren't losing anything, and if you turned out to be right, the reward was infinite," Corvallis said.

Pascal once said that you should believe in God because, if you turned out to be wrong, you weren't losing anything, and if you turned out to be right, the reward was infinite

What awaited them there could only be guessed at, but for Ariane it was probably going to be a substantial reward, a medal, and a promotion to some high rank in Red's military intelligence branch.

The implication is clear. If it's something you love doing, you should not also be rewarded additionally with money. Most people earn money by doing something they hate—or something that is at least hard work, not endless joy! So the world's message is: If you feel negatively about it, then you can enjoy it!

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

Love requires sacrifice, but it's worth it

Boxing is a mug's game.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

the awards and prominent positions that come with bowing before authority mean nothing to the rebel, who understands that virtue is not rewarded. The rebel expects nothing and gets nothing. But for the rebel, to refuse to struggle, to refuse to rebel, is to commit spiritual and moral suicide.