Reward Quotes

Peace is its own reward.

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

The smell rewards the care.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

Much effort, much prosperity.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

I’m living now in my reward.

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

Truth is its own reward.

Getting it done is my reward.