The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.

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.

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

When you're motivated by external rewards, it's often because you're trying to accomplish goals you didn't create yourself.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over.

Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

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

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

We need a country that embraces all, and rewards innovators, entrepreneurs, job creators, and hard-working people of all sorts.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

I really like that if I work harder and harder, it is possible to see and create new opportunities and even rewards in the future.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

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