Rewards Quotes

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
Arthur C. Brooks

Success, Equality, Labor

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper

Strong, Loyalty, Law

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
Sidney Altman

Work, Hard, Small

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.
Eva Longoria

Success, Work, Hard

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
Alan Hansen

Success, Failure, Intense

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
David Soul

Time, Move, Draining

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
Harold Ford

Lose, Risk, Capitalist

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Giacomo Leopardi

Death, Evil, Away

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
Marie Windsor

Taught, Productive, Pleasant

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.
Frank Rich

Career, Him, Down

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.
Nicholas Negroponte

Real, Learned, Talk

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
Burt Lancaster

Mother, Circus, Confide

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
Jesse Helms

Work, Hard, Worth

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
Benjamin Jowett

Society, Won, Cost

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
Alan Dean Foster

Life, Giving, Sacrifice

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
Ahmed Chalabi

Great, Happen, Friends

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
Antoine Lavoisier

Him, Rich, Cannot

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
John M. Ford

Book, Lost, Giving

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison

Life, Courage, Respect

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
Craig Johnston

Time, Football, Reap

If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
Scott Turow

Simple, Passion, Down

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.
Jim Hunt

Thinking, Big, Creative

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.
Jared Polis

Won, Meaningful, Internet

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
Howard Berman

Health, Long, Seem

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.
David Caruso

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
Tina Brown

Makes, Mistake, Seems

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
Pat Roberts

Justice, Less, State

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
Christina Romer

Long, Saying, Heaven

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.
Ato Boldon

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
John Barrow

Same, Act, Star

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