Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

Julian Barnes

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

Michael Polanyi

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

Michael Pollan

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Mike Murdock

Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

Mike Murdock

Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.

John Ruskin

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

George Farquhar

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

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.

Sophocles

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

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.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Saint Augustine

The reward of patience Is patience.

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.

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.

Robin Leach

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

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

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.

Sallust

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

Simone Weil

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Thucydides

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

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.

Tom Peters

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.