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Quotes About Reward

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~ Orhan Pamuk
Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.
~ Orison Swett Marden
he wins the prize who pays the price.
~ Orison Swett Marden
success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The richest dynasties of the aristocracy had all stood near the summit of the Tsarist state during its great territorial expansion between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries and had consequently been rewarded with lavish endowments of fertile land in the south of Russia and Ukraine. These were the Sheremetevs and the Stroganovs, the Demidovs and Davydovs, the Vorontsovs and Yusupovs.
~ Orlando Figes
It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.
~ Orson Scott Card
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton)
~ Connie Brockway
Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.
~ Constance O'Day-Flannery
He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
~ Cornelia Funke
Once upon a time...There's a reason all fairy tales begin like this. But the 'and they lived happily ever after' at the end? That has to be earned.
~ Cornelia Funke
The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun: a certain amount of difficulty plus a certain amount of your friends plus a certain amount of interesting strangers plus a certain amount of reward plus a certain amount of opportunity equaled fun
~ Cory Doctorow
But after all, his humility appeared in having always but low expectations, looking for little regard and reward from any men, after he had merited as highly as possible by his universal serviceableness.
~ Cotton Mather
What is the significance of this? It was simply a demonstration of Parental Mind. The Tathagata did not do this in expectation of some reward or fame. He did it unconditionally, without thought of profit or gain.
~ D?gen
When he was a boy (Carnegie) back in Scotland, he got hold of a rabbit, a mother rabbit. Presto! He soon had a whole nest of little rabbits and nothing to feed them. But he had a brilliant idea. He told the boys and girls in the neighbourhood that if they would go out and pull enough clover and dandelions to feed the rabbits, he would name the bunnies in their honour. The plan worked like magic.
~ Dale Carnegie
If you do these things (read good books), what will be your reward? Gradually, unconsciously but inevitably, your diction will begin to take on added beauty and refinement. Gradually, you will begin to reflect someone the glory and beauty and majesty of your companions.
~ Dale Carnegie
please feel free to work an extra half hour from time to time if you feel you need to do those "once-in-a-while" things like polishing the cup holders and the like. I, of course, will pay you for the extra time. "The next day, when I walked into my office," Dr. Fitzhugh reported, "my desk had been polished to a mirror-like finish, as had my chair, which I nearly slid out of.
~ Dale Carnegie
Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.
~ Walter Dean Myers
El viaje es la recompensa
~ Walter Isaacson
The journey is the reward
~ Walter Isaacson
Productive assets such as farms, real estate and, yes, business ownership produce wealth — lots of it. Most owners of such properties will be rewarded. All that's required is the passage of time, an inner calm, ample diversification and a minimization of transactions and fees.
~ Warren Buffett
The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.
~ Warren Farrell PhD