Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Farquhar

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

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.

Mignon McLaughlin

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

John Ruskin

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

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

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.

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.