Reward Quotes

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Hope, Fear

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Life, Today, Kindness

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Knowledge, Kindness, Someone

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Best, Everything

Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Person, After, Effort

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

Love, Character, Emotional

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Wisdom, Talk, Listening

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart

Life, Change, Decision

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn

Effort, Multiple

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Fear, Live

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard

Work, Good, God

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard

Done, Risk, Knows

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Depression, Artist

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton

Love, Good, Care

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

Office, Virtue, Box

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

Themselves, While, Unique

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

Business, Simple, Difficult

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

Waiting, Lie, Sea

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Courage

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Money

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Greatest

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman

Political, American, Choose

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Sunrise, Lost, Two

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life, Greatest, Help

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

Happiness, Living, Highest

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