Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

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

Harry S Truman

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

Mitch Daniels

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Margaret Thatcher

Life's greatest reward is life itself

R. Buckminster Fuller

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

Publilius Syrus

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

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.

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.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Liz Vassey

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

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.

Karl Marx

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

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.

Euripides

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

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Jeff Bridges

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

Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Jean Cocteau

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

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.