Quotes About Reward

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

Rats—humans too—continue to push on the bar in the cage of our existence looking for a reward past the point of reason because, every once in a while, something unthinkably delicious comes down the tube.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

The gambling impulse even predates humanity: A variety of animals, from bees to primates, embrace risk for a chance at reward. A 2005 Duke University study found that macaque monkeys preferred to follow a "riskier" target, which gave them varying amounts of juice, over a "safe" one, which always gave the same—they just like gambling.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

Etant donné que la valeur du travail réside désormais moins dans ce qu'il produit ou dans les bienfaits qu'il apporte aux autres que dans sa dimension sacrificielle, tout élément susceptible de le rendre moins pénible ou plus plaisant, y compris la satisfaction de se sentir utile à ses semblables, diminue sa valeur - justifiant donc un salaire inférieur. C'est un système d'une incroyable perversité.

The less the value of work is seen to lie either in what it produces, or the benefits it provides to others, the more work comes to be seen as valuable primarily as a form of self-sacrifice, which means that anything that makes that work less onerous or more enjoyable, even the gratification of knowing that one's work benefits others, is actually seen to lower its value—and as a result, to justify lower levels of pay.

Not to mention that a crown is too high a reward ever to be given to merit alone, and will always induce the candidates to employ force, or money, or intrigue, to procure the votes of the electors: so that such an election will give no better chance for superior merit in the prince, than if the state had trusted to birth alone for determining the sovereign.

Martin Hammer in Menzel's group had discovered a unique neuron, called VUMmx1, that responded to sucrose (a type of sugar) with electrical activity but not to an odor; however, after the odor was delivered, followed shortly by the sucrose reward, VUMmx1 would now respond to the odor.

To grow a sanctuary from seedlings takes time. But time has a way of going faster than you realize, and before you're aware of it you'll be rewarded hundredfold for your efforts.

Can a machine, educated through a system of reward and punishment, be said to be able to think? Are children, when they cry or laugh, revealing some spark of soul that distinguishes them from machines, or simply following "rules of behavior" with which we as spectators empathize because we are familiar with them? Or to put it another way, does asking whether computers think require us to ask, as well, whether humans compute?

One major reason I live in Paris is that I can visit Poilâne any time I want. Of all the boulangeries in Paris, Poilâne is certainly the most famous, and if I'm willing to brave the city sidewalks of the Left Bank, my reward is a rustic wedge of their world-famous pain au levain cut from the large loaves of sourdough lined up in the bakery,

What are we playing for? This needs to be worth my while." "Honour?" Steve suggested. "Let me know if your universal translator got that one. I know it may be a tough concept for your species.

A Lunda slave, for whom I interceded to be freed of the yoke, ran away, and as he is near the Barna, his countrymen, he will be hidden. He told his plan to our guide, and asked to accompany him back to Tanganyika, but he is eager to deliver him up for a reward:

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.