56 Reward Quotes

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.

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

I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.

For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!

Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wished) a friend.

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Thy duty do? rejoined the voice, Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice; But shalt thou then, when all is done, Enjoy a love, embrace a beauty Like these, that may be seen and won In life, whose course will then be run; Or wilt thou be where there is none? I know not, I will do my duty.

Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.

Pro tali numismate tales merces.

The legend of Felix is ended, the toiling of Felix is done; The Master has paid him his wages, the goal of his journey is won; He rests, but he never is idle; a thousand years pass like a day, In the glad surprise of Paradise where work is sweeter than play.

'I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like this,' - putting his index and middle fingers together.

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for.'

There is a reward for kindness to every living animal or human.

'Surely this Qur'an is the rope of Allah, and a manifest Light (nur), and a beneficial cure. Therefore, busy yourselves with the recitation of it, for Allah - The Mighty and Glorious - grants the reward of ten good deeds to you for every letter which is recited.'

It had borne the burden; it was only right that it should have the honor.

Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!

Generally he respected, or at least pretended a love to, all ingenious persons in any arts, whom he arranged to be sent or brought to him. But the niggardliness and incompetence of his reward shewed that this man was a personated act of greatness, and that Private Cromwell yet governed Prince Oliver.

Trying to shock nuns is not much sport. There is no trophy.

Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be, Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea. Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down, Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown.

Un service au-dessus de toute recompense A force d'obliger tient presque lieu d'offense.

How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth, with all his worth and pains! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

If there's ever a price on your head, take it.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

I'm a very big believer in the idea that if a Jew lives like a Jew and, as it is written, sets aside tithes or a fifth of his income - then the Holy One, blessed be he, pays him back. I know that from my personal experience. The more I give every year, the more I have.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon.

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

A moving tale of the modern soul, and a fine detective story of a man in search of himself. Beautifully, lucidly written, it offers a large challenge and an equal reward. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one Harley of a book.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.