"To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward."
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"There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously."
"You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward."
"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."
"There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil."
"There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."
"The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity."
"Getting it done is my reward."
"The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it."
"The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it."
"Understanding is the reward of faith."
"True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy."
"Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents."
"Allah rendered patience as a help for getting reward."
"Success is in the journey, but the reward is the view from the top."
"There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action."
"If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward."
"Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour."
"When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude."
"Reward is its own virtue."