Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

We're not going to reward the union for striking.

We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The rewards had better be there.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

We want for San Antonio to help! If you see my sister, if you see her, let us know! There is a reward out there for her.

The thing is, he's been pressing so hard. To see him come on top like that, it's truly a reward for him.

Dallas Smith

I just want to have fun. It's just rewarding to get to this point.

It's very rewarding work. There's a lot of variety; I can sit here and do books, write checks, wash cars, garden, embalm. That's what makes it interesting.

The rewards are so immense. I get so many hugs,

Nomar Garciaparra

The reward is just being able to play again, ... I want to be back to play with these guys.

Craig Biggio

This is the most rewarding season I've ever had.

If you walked away from it, that was your reward right there.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

Aaron Lowe

Being (here) has been wonderful. It's very rewarding after all of this time.

John Schuerholz

This has been as rewarding as any year I've been in baseball,

Brad Shaw

We wanted to come out skating. We did, but didn't get rewarded for it. We generated a lot of chances, but just didn't put them in the net.

Karl Marx

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Linda Miles

It's unfortunate this happened. Why it happened, I don't know, but it did happen, and I don't think he should be rewarded for what he's done.

Ricky Craven

It's a sport that will reward you for being selfish.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Henry David Thoreau

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Grover Cleveland

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Gina Barreca

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

Erich Maria Remarque

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Jean Cocteau

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Euripides

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.