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.
~By Bodhidharma ~
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
~By Sophocles ~
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
~By Catherine II ~
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
~By Fay Wray ~
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Honor is the reward of virtue.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
~By Tony Visconti ~
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
~By Christina Romer ~
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
~By Pat Riley ~
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
~By Keith Henson ~
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
~By Og Mandino ~
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
~By Richard Stallman ~
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
~By Sun Tzu ~
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
~By Gale Norton ~
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
~By Howard Berman ~
Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
~By Douglas Wood ~
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
~By James Galway ~
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.
~By John Walters ~
I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
~By Camille Claudel ~
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
~By Ely Culbertson ~
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.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
~By Meryl Streep ~
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
~By Josh McDowell ~
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!
~By Jonathan King ~
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
~By George Farquhar ~
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Courage is always rewarded.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward.
~By Jason Zebehazy ~
The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.
~By Frederick Forsyth ~
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
~By Julian Bond ~
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
~By Joichi Ito ~
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
~By James H. Douglas ~
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
~By Barack Obama ~
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~By Napolean Hill ~
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.
~By Sean Bean ~
I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.
~By Sean Bean ~
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
~By James Franco ~
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.
~By Richard King ~
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.
~By Natalie Portman ~
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
~By Helen Keller ~
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.
~By David Canary ~
The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
~By Sadaharu Oh ~
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
~By Jayne Mansfield ~
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.
~By Paul Parker ~
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
~By Bill Cosby ~
The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
~By Keith Henson ~
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
~By George Santayana ~
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
~By Major Taylor ~
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
~By Mel Martinez ~
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
~By Warren Buffett ~
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.
~By Jamie Zawinski ~
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.
~By Russell Banks ~
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
~By Tommy Chong ~
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.
~By Mike Wilson ~
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
~By Kit Bond ~
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
~By William Scott ~
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
~By Marilu Henner ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
~By Susan Collins ~
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