Reward Quotes
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it."
-Bob Nelson
-Bob Nelson
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But 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."
-George Washington
-George Washington
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
-Calvin Coolidge
-Calvin Coolidge
"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward."
-Zig Ziglar
-Zig Ziglar
"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
-Horace Mann
"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."
-Mahatma Gandhi
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."
-John Locke
-John Locke
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
-John Ruskin
-John Ruskin
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
-John Ruskin
-John Ruskin
"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."
-Ayn Rand
-Ayn Rand
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts."
-Baruch Spinoza
-Baruch Spinoza
"It's an honor to be in any kind of post-season. It's a reward for winning the Big Sky title."
-Jon Newlee
-Jon Newlee
"I knew if we came in and had our best day, we would be in the hunt. For the most part, the girls came out strong and this is our reward."
-Amy Klein
-Amy Klein
"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."
-Alfred A. Montapert
-Alfred A. Montapert
"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
-Maurice Chevalier
"The board continues to believe that the price offered by Carnival does not fairly reward shareholders for the value that would be created by Carnival and its shareholders from the integration of P&O Princess into Carnival."
-Princess Cruises
-Princess Cruises
"Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it."
-Jim Jordan
-Jim Jordan
"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
-Robert Ingersoll
-Robert Ingersoll
