Reward Quotes

God is a good paymaster, He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You will not be rewarded for your good nature. Your good nature is your reward.

~ Debasish Mridha

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?

~ Kamil Ali

Just follow your bliss, that's all you have to do. Be willing to be disappointed, for if you risk nothing, you'll have nothing worth having.

~ Kate Mcgahan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

~ Carl Sagan

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

~ James C. Dobson

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.

~ George Ainslie

Reflection can be its own reward.

~ Alena Graedon

The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward.

~ Jamie Magee

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

~ James Rozoff

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

~ Thomas Sowell

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

~ Ryan Lilly

The greatest risk is not taking any.

~ Tim Fargo

The greatest risk is not taking one.

~ Tim Fargo

Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.

~ J.w. Lord

It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject, which still promises much for physical optics and appears to open a new field.

~ Joseph Von Fraunhofer

Intimacy with GOD is most exhilarating, most amazing, most exciting and most rewarding of all.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.

~ Steve Maraboli

If a stranger saying we are dependable activates the reward system, imagine what praise from a boss, a parent, or even an unaccomplished slightly older graduate student will do. Of course, we all know that praise is a good thing, as long as it isn't too unconditional, but until very recently, we had no idea that praise taps into the same reinforcement system in the brain that enables cheese to help rats learn to solve mazes. And positive social regard is a renewable resource. Rather than having less of something after using it, when we let others know we value them, both parties have more.

~ Matthew D. Lieberman

Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass….

~ James A. Murphy

When the reward is not worth it, when you have to force yourself to do it, when you start changing because of it, and when you just simply loathe it, that is when you should realize that there is nothing for you in it.

~ Charbel Tadros

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

~ Napoleon Hill

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

~ Warren Buffett

Love is love's reward.

~ John Dryden

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

~ Jeff Bridges

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

~ George Sand

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

~ Rowan Williams

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

~ Baruch Spinoza

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

~ Richard Bach

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

~ James H. Douglas

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

~ William Hazlitt

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.

~ Charles Duhigg

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

~ Johannes Tauler

The reward of suffering is experience.

~ Harry S Truman

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

~ Paloma Faith

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

~ Mitch Daniels