Quotes About Reward

If you are looking for a particular response to bring you joy, that response may never come. The joy comes from being fully present in this moment. The reward is in throwing yourself into it right here and now.

Giving the gift is reward enough. That's where the life is. That's where the joy is.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion

Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible.

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets are the reward.

Joe was a gentle soul. But it's seven to two that Llita did not throw up. "The city's committee for public safety voted Joe the usual reward, and the street committee passed the hat and added to it; a cleaver against a gun rated special notice. Good advertising for Estelle's Kitchen but not important otherwise, save that the kids could use that money

Always reward the bringers of information, whether the news is good or bad: that was one of his basic rules.

If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun.

The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right.

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

A year of hell is worth three minutes in heaven. Or so they say.

We think now that love is a kind of giving of attention. It is usually attention given to some other consciousness, but not always; the attention can be to something unconscious, even inanimate. But the attention seems often to be called out by a fellow consciousness. Something about it compels attention, and rewards attention. That attention is what we call love.

You're not a conventional man." "No!" He hooted. "I never claimed to be! Except before certain selection committees of course. A conventional man! Ah, ha ha ha ha ha!—the conventional men get Maya. That is their reward." And he laughed like a wild man.

Pronto aprendimos a llevar varios problemas a la vez: un problema difícil que deba ser visitado y revisitado una vez tras otra a lo largo de muchos meses o años antes de que se abra la cáscara, con la esperanza de una gran ganancia; y otros problemas mucho más fáciles, con ganancias más inmediatas.

Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake.

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed they always demand payment.

For two years she had worked earnestly and faithfully, making many mistakes and learning from them. She had had her reward. She had taught her scholars something, but she felt that they had taught her much more-lessons of tenderness, self-control, innocent wisdom, lore of childish hearts.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.