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Quotes About Reward

the biggest reward of a lifetime is finishing day after day with a smile in you face.
~ Nuno Rosa
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
~ Ayn Rand
The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
~ E. F. Schumacher
But I tell you that you cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into the prose of honest vegetation by any gingerbread reward, or by the offer of a secure position, or by the gift of money, or by a woman's love: because there is here a permanent beauty of risk, a fascinating abyss of danger, the delightful sinking of the heart, the impetuous pulsation of life, the ecstasy!
~ A. I. Kuprin
Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. Critical thinking may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood—but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.
~ A.O. Scott
Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
labour, like commodities, may be said to have a real and a nominal price. Its real price may be said to consist in the quantity of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which are given for it; its nominal price, in the quantity of money. The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour.
~ Adam Smith
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition, that they are going fast backwards.
~ Adam Smith
Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
~ Adam Smith
There is a beehive under every pot of honey
~ Adriana Trigiani
The reward of suffering is experience.
~ Aeschylus
Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
~ Aesop
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
~ Aesop
Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
~ Aesop
Soul reward is the key element of a Tao-based job.
~ Alan Cohen
The Palestinians will eventually have a state, but it should not come as a reward for terrorism.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has warned that if terrorism is rewarded in the Middle East, it will "be coming to a theatre near you.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
I personally favor the creation of a Palestinian state as a consequence of making best efforts to end terrorism, not as a reward for increasing terrorism as a carefully calculated tactic to achieve statehood.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.
~ Alan Moore
No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap." The assumption then is that if we sow good deeds, we will reap good rewards. But who decides what action is good or bad? The desire to qualify an action, and its consequence, as good or bad, right or wrong, is a peculiarly human trait. Nature does not do so.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Another woman gave her boyfriend a ten-minute back rub every day he managed to arrive for dinner by 7:00.
~ Diana Delonzor
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up the rain.
~ Dolly Parton
the way i see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta out up with the rain~
~ Dolly Parton
The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton