Quotes About Reward

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

Jessamyn West said, 'Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Any man who looked at her forty-year-old butt like that deserved a reward.

Green Eggs and Ham. The book was not actually written to encourage fussy eaters to eat, but to make Seuss's editor Bennett Cerf eat his words. (Cerf had bet Seuss he couldn't write a book using fifty words or less.) Green Eggs and Ham hit it on the nail, and Geisel won fifty dollars, or would have, but Cerf never paid.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

So what would you have asked for if you won?" He doesn't hesitate even one beat. "Your peanut butter chocolate cake with my name written in Reese's Pieces.

That's a tiny inconsequential risk compared to what could be gained.

And she deserved it.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary. Now God hath bound thy trouble upon thee by His special providence, and with a design to try thee, and with purposes to reward and crown thee. These cords thou canst not break, and therefore lie thou down gently, and suffer the hand of God to do what He pleases.

it is extremely trying when one has once tasted pleasure to abstain from its enticements, so the reward of doing this is proportionately great.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

if you do fall, repentance will restore you, and you who were hypocrites at baptism may have a firm faith in your repentance. Be not disturbed by the thought of a difference between the righteous and the penitent, and do not imagine that pardon even gives a lower place; rather believe that it takes away your crown. For there is one reward: he who stands on the right hand shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

whether the victory be won in peace or in war, God gives the same reward to those who win it.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God' (Hebrews 12:1-2). Jesus was motivated to endure by anticipating the joy of His reward. No amount of hardship and struggle could deprive Him of that anticipation.

God's grace does not operate on a reward for works basis. It is much better than that.

Grace is part of the very nature of God, and He cannot change. He is indeed the generous landowner of the parable in Matthew 20:1-16, continually going to the marketplace of life to find those in need of a day's wages so He can bring them into His vineyard and then reward them out of all proportion to their labors.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.