Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Gina Barreca

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

Jeff Bridges

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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.

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.

Erich Maria Remarque

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

Karl Marx

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

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.

John Gokongwei

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

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.

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.

Paulo Coelho

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

Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own 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.

Joel Osteen

Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

John Dryden

Virtue is her own reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

Joyce Meyer

I’m living now in my reward.

Juvenal

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

Mark Steyn

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Paul Allaire

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

Julia Quinn

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.