Quotes About Reward

In most places and most of the time, liberty is not a product of military action. Rather, it is something alive that grows or diminishes every day, in how we think and communicate, how we treat each other in our public discourse, in what we value and reward as a society, and how we do that. Churchill and Orwell showed us the way.

Regression effects teach us specious lessons about the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment.

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.

But it is not incumbent on man to reward a bad action with a good one, or to return good for evil; and whenever it is done, it is a voluntary act, and not a duty. It

That which we obtain too easily we esteem too lightly.

With the Docking System, you tell the kids, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that if you forget a chore, I'll do it for you. The bad news is that you're going to pay me for helping you out." Then tell them the exact amount they will have to pay you.

After a bitter pill, God gives sugar.

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.

Jacob, if you want the milk, you have to buy the cow a meal.

never thinking. And then it blew up in his face.' Tex leans forward, the stench of soda-masked booze saturating the air. 'He was expecting a reward. But when he started to see what was happening to the witnesses …' The famous 'murdered witnesses' to the JFK assassination,

There are so many blessings that flow from being a Christian, but the real blessing is Christ. Christ is himself his own reward.

Sacrifice becomes an opportunity to express our delight in God. What we give up seems small in comparison to what we're gaining.

He loved his family and fellow man, never raised his voice or fists, and was rewarded with a lifelong, routine digestion of small doses of humiliation.

He said many people believe in God only because of the selfish reward of eternal life …" Another blew his nose. "So in order for our faith to be pure, we have to stop believing in God." "What!" "Only temporarily—just long enough to imagine eternal darkness …" "… Then, once we could handle that, we were free to return and believe selflessly." "… My belief's never been stronger.

I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

I've been given that gift of working with Jack Nicholson and James Coburn and certain people who just out of nowhere break into stories - talking about working with Alfred Hitchcock or Kubrick. That's my real reward of my career.

It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding.

Truly, many times have you heard me say that the rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed. Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. Many others face each obstacle in their path with fear and doubt and consider them as enemies when, in truth, these obstructions are friends and helpers.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Quanto mais velha fico, menos paciência tenho para mesquinharias e para a busca de coisas superficiais. Existe uma riqueza que não tem nada a ver com dinheiro, e ela vem da perspectiva e da sabedoria de prestar atenção à sua vida. Ela tem tudo e mais um pouco para lhe ensinar. E o que eu sei de verdade é que não existe recompensa maior do que a alegria de um bom aprendizado.

Wenn man für das bezahlt wird, was man mit Begeisterung tut, dann ist der Gehaltscheck nur ein Bonus.

If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus. Give yourself the bonus of a lifetime: Pursue your passion. Discover what you love. Then do it!