"I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you."
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"Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem."
"Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards."
"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges"
"A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it."
"The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar."
"In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves."
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know."
"The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial."
"The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong."
"TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray."
"Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do."
"That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]"
"Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity."
"Honor is the reward of virtue."
"Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge."
"Service without reward is punishment."
"I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving."
"Art is difficult, transient is her reward."
"There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't."