The reward of suffering is experience.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.
~By Neil Kurshan ~
Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
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 ~
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.
~By Bill Toomey ~
For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.
~By Humphrey Lyttelton ~
For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
~By Lord Byron ~
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
~By Barack Obama ~
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
~By Richard Stallman ~
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
~By Alan Hansen ~
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~By Og Mandino ~
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
~By Julius Erving ~
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.
~By Peter Bondra ~
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
~By Catherine II ~
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 ~
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
~By William Penn ~
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
~By Ric Keller ~
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
~By Victor Borge ~
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
~By King Hassan II ~
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
~By Zhuangzi ~
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 ~
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
~By Javier Bardem ~
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 ~
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
~By Sydney Smith ~
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
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 ~
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
~By Terence ~
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 ~
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
~By Carol Channing ~
I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.
~By Donald Cargill ~
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 ~
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
~By Brandon Boyd ~
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.
~By Paul Parker ~
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
~By Giacomo Leopardi ~
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
~By Ryan Reynolds ~
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
~By Sam Mendes ~
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 ~
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
~By Jonas Salk ~
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 ~
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 ~
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Peace is its own reward.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Honor is the reward of virtue.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
~By William Bennett ~
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
~By John Engler ~
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
~By Gene Tierney ~
My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.
~By George Andrew Olah ~
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
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 ~
In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
~By John Dobbin ~
I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.
~By Janine Turner ~
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
~By Holly Johnson ~
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
~By Keith Henson ~
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
~By Anna Held ~
I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
~By Julius Erving ~
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
~By Pat Roberts ~
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 ~
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
~By Denzel Washington ~
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.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
~By Paul Bryant ~
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 ~
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
~By Jules Renard ~
We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.
~By John Portman ~
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
~By James Galway ~
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
~By Bob Nelson ~
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 ~
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
~By Chris Cannon ~
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~By Ayn Rand ~
|