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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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... View quote
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. View quote
Dōgen
But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior. View quote
Ted Nugent
Death is the reward for living. View quote
Sylvia Browne
Liberty is its own reward. (Woodrow Wilson)
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. View quote
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. View quote
Jane Austen
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. View quote
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. View quote
Phil Ochs
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. View quote
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Vera Brittain
The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is. View quote
Warren Buffett