Quotes About Reward

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

it is selfish," he says, "because you get more out of it than what you are putting into

You wait till it's over and see who's won," he said. "Then you know those were the right risks to take.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Nought venture nought have.

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

For he that hath, to him shall be given.

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

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

La vejez tendría que ser la recompensa de una vida de mucho trabajo, pero no será más que un castigo si insistimos en seguir haciendo lo mismo de siempre, midiendo los logros del presente por el baremo de los del pasado y quedándonos cortos sin remedio.

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide

Understanding is the reward of faith," Saint Augustine says. "I believe, in order that I may understand" will be the catchphrase of the early Middle Ages. It is the summing-up of Augustine's final authoritative fusion of Neoplatonism and Christianity.

How does he learn to take that crucial step? Does he learn it the hard way, that if he is going to get along he has to go along, as Pufendorf suggested? Or is there a simpler, more uplifting way, by which we learn that virtue can be its own reward?