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Quotes About Reward

If you take big risks there are big rewards.
~ Clifford Irving
Life rewards the risk-takers.
~ Clint Borgen
He committed suicide in 1794 because the Revolutionary authorities had made it clear that they planned to reward his irreverent wit with a visit to the guillotine.
~ Clive James
Men dig tons of earth to find an ounce of gold.
~ Heraclitus
It does not matter whether or not you are an experienced electronics hobbyist, your success with the circuits in these projects is assured. Proceed with enthusiasm; your reward will be enjoyment, as well as deep personal satisfaction.
~ Unknown
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
~ Herbert Spencer
If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?
~ Herman Melville
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
~ Herodotus
To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God" (Rev. 2:7).
~ Unknown
The Big Score.
~ Holly Black
Have you ever heard that virtue is its own reward?' Cardan says pleasantly. 'That's because there's no other reward in it.
~ Holly Black
Boldness is rewarded. But what about all those girls, all those obedient girls who trusted and loved and wed and died? Weren't they bold, too?
~ Holly Black
So here are the wages for your service,' I say with a pointed look around the cave. 'I hope betrayal was its own reward.
~ Holly Black
The High King makes a nonchalant gesture. 'Jude likes to suppose the worst of both her enemies and her allies. Her reward is occasionally being wrong about us.' 'Hard to remember an occasion of that,' I say to him under my breath. He lifts a single brow.
~ Holly Black
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls
~ Honore de Balzac
Just come back home, Abigail, come back home and stop this. He left us. He left you. You were my reward. Missing out on you was his punishment. How could you choose him?
~ Liane Moriarty
What this tells us is that children who are outperformed may give up rather than fight to improve, and those who do win may not feel compelled to keep trying as hard if even the losers get praise and a trophy.
~ Linda Kaplan Thaler
Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
~ Lionel Shriver
Economics doesn't reward nice. It rewards smart.
~ Lionel Shriver
Shep's plight clearly illustrated that there was no point to anything and there was no relationship between virtue and reward and there never had been.
~ Lionel Shriver
I wondered what getting an A would feel like. The best feeling in the world, probably. Like going to a Yankees game with your dad and eating three hot dogs with extra everything.
~ Lisa Graff
A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals That's not ruthless?
~ Lisa Kleypas
I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
~ Nir Eyal