Quotes About Reward

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.

Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.