Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fowles

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

John Dryden

Virtue is her own reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

Jim Rohn

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

Jim Rohn

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

Joyce Meyer

I’m living now in my reward.

Livy

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

Juvenal

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Lord Acton

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

John Betjeman

Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down.

Jon Stewart

You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

Paulo Coelho

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own reward.

Richard Bach

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Robert Fripp

The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes unreal.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Sallust

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

Sting

One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Sophocles

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Thucydides

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

Tamora Pierce

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.

Swami Vivekananda

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Tom Peters

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Tom Peters

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Sylvia Browne

Death is the reward for living

Simone Weil

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.