"That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones."
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"The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds."
"Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards."
"Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way."
"Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research."
"Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake."
"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
"Writing is its own reward."
"Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business."
"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
"Truth is its own reward."
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
"Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children."
"All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just."
"The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is."
"Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be."
"We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible."
"To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak."
"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward."
"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward."