Reward Quotes - page 4

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know - namely, that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog - just like a brute. That is his reward! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.

Margaret Fuller

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.

Sam Harris

I've always been very interested in the short story. Compared to the often exhausting world of the novel, the short story offers a quicker reward, and there's something appealing about its greater spontaneity...

Reinaldo Arenas

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

Dōgen

But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Ted Nugent

Death is the reward for living.

Sylvia Browne

Liberty is its own reward. (Woodrow Wilson)

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Baruch Spinoza

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Jane Austen

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Catherine II of Russia

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Phil Ochs

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

George Sand

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

Ali

We cannot understand spiritual realities by scholarship alone. Although study is important, the path to spiritual realization is through dedicated, selfless service. As we offer service to others with no expectation of reward, the Lord in the heart becomes more available to us and provides for our needs-because we have removed the veils that hide the truth.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

Lydia Sigourney

I'll tell you this -
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. (Jim Morrison)

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

Roger Scruton

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Vera Brittain

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

Warren Buffett

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