"Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward."
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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward"
"We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us."
"The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success."
"Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action."
"The only reward of virtue is virtue."
"There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years."
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
"Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things."
"Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us."
"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."
"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead"
"Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast."
"The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast."
"There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant."
"I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper."
"Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start."
"And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair."
"Reward worthy failure - Experimentation."