Quotes About Reward

Good things don't come easy. If you get it cheap, you will lose it quick. -Okiki Michael

Breath is God's gift. Life is our reward. The rest is up to us.

Each man should have all he earns, whether by brain or body; and the director, the great industrial leader, is one of the greatest of earners, and should have a proportional reward; but no man should live on the earnings of another, and there should not be too gross inequality between service and reward.

Nothing of value comes without effort.

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

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Pour un petit avantage, on entreprend une longue route; et pour la vie éternelle, à peine en trouve-t'on qui veuillent faire un pas.

charity is oftentimes really sensuality, for man's own inclination, his own will, his hope of reward, and his self-interest, are motives seldom absent. On the contrary, he who has true and perfect charity seeks self in nothing, but searches all things for the glory of God.

For a little reward men make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarce lift a foot once from the ground. Mean reward is sought after; for a single piece of money sometimes there is shameful striving; for a thing which is vain and for a trifling promise, men shrink not from toiling day and night.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirst neighbor, what will not be the reward for those who, by putting good books into the hands of those neighbors, open to them the fountains of eternal life?" ~ Thomas À Kempis

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious

For a close, 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.

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

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.

There are lot of ways people get non-economic payback - learning, networking, and relationships. These drive most angels more than the money.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

When I get a job, I buy one really nice thing to have something to show for it.

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

How was this helping these kids learn their times tables? All it was doing was rewarding the smart kids who already knew them. For the minority who didn't it was just another brief storm of shame.