Rewards Quotes - Page 25

I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There’s no greater reward.

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

Great thinking is its own reward.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]