Quotes About Reward

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

In my case, I don't eat a lot before a show. I eat after. But I do two shows and it becomes part of my reward system. 'I made people laugh. I deserve a pizza.'

If you know what its taken to get there, you appreciate it so much more than if youre given it all on a plate.

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

I have a huge house surrounded by luxury but I've earned it.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

What you sweat is what you get.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.

Being on the podium, of course, is enjoyable, but the majority of what - not just myself, not just swimmers, I think the majority of all athletes - it's not necessarily fun, the core of the whole process.

I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in places where they have the opportunity to develop into those careers but also having a rewards and recognition system that allows a great programmer to stay as a great programmer.