Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us."
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Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward."
Loretta Young
Actress
"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
Diogenes
Philosopher
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."
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"The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."
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"Fools, your reward is neither here nor there."
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"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly."
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"Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will."
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"Happiness is the reward of virtue."
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"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
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"My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter."
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"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
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"It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable"
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"God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit."
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"The final reward of the dead - to die no more"
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"To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death."
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"There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor."
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"The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile."
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"My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made."
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"Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it."
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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."
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"I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
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"The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz."
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"Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them."
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