Definition of Reward

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Reward

To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

Regard; respect; consideration.

That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.

Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.

Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.

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Reward Quotations

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

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

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

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

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

Reward Translations

reward in Afrikaans is vergelding, beloon
reward in Dutch is vergelden, lonen, terugdoen, belonen
reward in German is Belohnung
reward in Italian is gratificare, compenso
reward in Latin is praemium, remuneror, pretium, merces mercedis
reward in Portuguese is recompensa
reward in Spanish is recompensa, galardonar

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