Quotes About Reward

a trusted knight deliver a guerdon, a bag of gold coins.

Our illusion is that we travel through life on a calculated and straight trajectory, from the past through present into future, on a journey to understanding, truth, reward. But by Brownian movement we progress, sent angling off this way and that by the impact of everyone we meet and every event that we cannot foresee.

Remember, good things come to those who wait.

Think about it. Everything of value in life involves risk.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

These three steps offer a classic presentation of the way people are often led to do wrong: Exaggerate, then denigrate the other side's motive, then promise a reward.

Everything that leads to happiness involves pain.

Real justice does two things: It rewards and protects the righteous; and it punishes the sinner and the lawbreaker.

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.

If he's bound to risk his life, then it's my job to see he gets the most return from his gambling.

Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

I love when I feel like I earned something because I know, like, I don't feel that way for nothing.

If you want a piece of my time, the work I've put in has earned me the right to get paid for the work I'm being asked to do.

The more effort you put into something, the more you get out of it.

I'm going to end up with a lot more money than I feel like I'm entitled to, given how hard I work.

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. – Mark Twain

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.

We will reap a harvest if we do not give up. —GALATIANS 6:9

Why does a man spend fifty years of his life in an occupation that is often painful? I once told a class I was teaching that writing is an intellectual contact sport, similar in some respects to football. The effort required can be exhausting, the goal unreached, and you are hurt on almost every play; but that doesn't deprive a man or a boy from getting peculiar pleasures from the game.

The great God, in a way of bounty, may often bestow upon us vastly beyond what our little services can ever pretend to have deserved, but He never punishes beyond our deserts.