Reward Quotes - page 3

It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. (Maimonides)
Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward. View quote
Jean Chrétien
The fact is that Democrats have already been pursuing policies that are much better for the white working class than anything the other party has to offer. Yet this has brought no political reward. View quote
Paul Krugman
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. View quote
Ayn Rand
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes. View quote
Tom Peters
Those that are hunted Know this as their life, Their reward: to walk Under such trees in full knowledge Of what is in glory above them, And to feel no fear. View quote
James Dickey
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. View quote
Augustus
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place? View quote
Charles Lindbergh
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. (Teresa of Ávila)
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work. View quote
Edward Elgar
(Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward. View quote
Fatimah
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations. View quote
Gao Xingjian
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. View quote
Ramakrishna
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle. View quote
Harvey Keitel
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward. (Gene Roddenberry)
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. View quote
Jonas Salk
Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker. View quote
Joan Robinson
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. View quote
George Santayana