Quotes About Reward

in certain situations, people are two to three times more motivated to make a change to avoid a loss than they are to achieve a gain.2

And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story. You'll get a taste for one story and then want another, and then another, and the stories will build until you're living a kind of epic of risk and reward, and the whole thing will be molding you into the actual character whose roles you've been playing.

He believed that Jesus, who met him on the way to Damascus, could give him a hundredfold more than he gave up, and in the world to come everlasting life. By faith he "counted the cost," and saw clearly on which side the balance lay. He believed firmly that to carry the cross of Christ was gain.

Another old friend who came to pay his respects [to the recently elected Urban VIII] and collect his reward was Buonarroti, who, like Strozzi, judged the new court guilty of excess. "Music always and always poetry / music and poetry morning and night / music in every time and season." "I would rather hear frogs sing.

Crear impulso es parte importante del proceso del éxito. De hecho, las personas de éxito saben que si se está dispuesto a pagar el precio al comienzo, se podrán cosechar los beneficios por el resto de la vida.

an award one's superiors gave in lieu of a bonus—

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.

Temujin rewarded the slaves in this bountiful manner, partly, no doubt, out of sincere gratitude to them for having been the means, probably, of saving him and his army from destruction, and partly for effect, in order to impress upon his followers a strong conviction that any great services rendered to him or to his cause were certain to be well rewarded.

Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.

Seventy thousand angels worship near the grave of Im?m Husayn (a). The prayer (salah) of one of them, is equal to a thousand prayers of mankind. The reward of this prayer is for the visitors of Im?m Husayn's (a) grave. The curse of Allah, His angels and all mankind is forever upon the killers of Im?m Husayn (a).

Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.

At moments I wonder whether those who go, as I do, for a Full Life, don't get their exact reward, which is that The Full Life is full of crap.

The man of desire needs the promise of reward to urge him to action. He is as a child working for the possession of a toy.

The living standard by which a person uses to measure their mortal life is the one which will be used to reward them in their afterlife

Auch das praktische Leben ist ein schwarzes Loch, das uns in den Tod führt. Revolution, Anarchie, Freiheit sind der Lohn des Denkens. Sie haben nur einen einzigen Thron, unseren Kopf.

Il m'arrive de penser que ce serait sympa de trouver des mecs intelligents qui veuillent bien travailler seize heures par jour pour des clopinettes –mais bon, s'ils le voulaient bien, ils ne seraient pas si intelligents.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.

Reward does more than make us work more effectively together—it stimulates creativity too. Reward, not necessity, is the true mother of invention.

You were useful... But just because you're useful to the wealthy doesn't mean they'll reward you. It just means they'll use you.

It is funny," she said, "that even after all this time, you still believe you should be rewarded, just because you have been obedient. I thought you would have learned that lesson in our father's halls. None shrank and simpered as you did, and yet great Helios stepped on you all the faster, because you were already crouched at his feet.

Death is a difficulty, but it is not a punishment for the wrongdoings of our first parents; life is difficult, but it is not a trial through which we must pass to earn an eternal reward. Mortality is not a wounding disability but the enabling condition that lends life its intensity, tenderness, poignancy, and beauty, let us say its wounded glory, the difficult glory, that has tasted the bitter truth.