Quotes About Reward

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

If you're passionate about something and stick with it, even if your friends aren't doing it, it'll pay off. It can be really rewarding to stick to your guns.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?