Quotes About Reward

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

I don't think anybody deserves anything than what they already have because I believe everyone gets what they deserve.

The effort you put into anything when you're a designer is 100% because it's all about what you get back out from it.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them.

Great teachers should be rewarded.

History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.

We had a reward system and a protection system. We would reward players for big plays, things that can help your team win. And then also, we paid guys money for protection, especially guys who couldn't protect themselves and especially offensive players.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

Listen carefully to today's Republican right and you hear the same social Darwinism that was used more than a century ago to justify the brazen inequality of the Gilded Age: survival of the fittest. Don't help the poor or the unemployed or anyone who's fallen on bad times, they say, because this only encourages laziness. America will be strong only if we reward the rich and punish the needy.

Romney is right: free enterprise is on trial. But he's wrong about the question at issue in that trial. It's not whether America will continue to reward risk taking. It's whether an economic system can survive when those at the top get giant rewards no matter how badly they screw up while the rest of us get screwed no matter how hard we work.

The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. —Aristotle

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Burn me, Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you do it, just so I can tell the story.

prize isn't worth the arrow

The good king delighted in noticing and promoting good men to positions of responsibility in his kingdom. He held audience, primarily, not to be seen, but to see, admire, and delight in his subjects, to reward them and to bestow honors upon them. [the King]