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If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

"Health and Education, Science", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, pp. 691-92, 1922.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.13

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

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

Money need not be our only reward.

"Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.198, Knopf

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.8, Vintage

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.72, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.43, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

Scott Adams (2008). “Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert”, p.14, Andrews McMeel Publishing

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins