Quotes About Reward

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

I'm trying to be the best in the world and get that pound-for-pound spot and I'm trying to get paid.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

I think the most important is to remain as stable and consistent as possible in terms of emotions, because when you're working, if you work well, you're always rewarded at some point.

My whole business philosophy is based on a risk-reward ratio. But it's got to stack up. If it doesn't, don't do it. You might as well go to a casino.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.