"The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour."
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"This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel."
"The reward of patience Is patience."
"Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas."
"Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats."
"Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy."
"Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention."
"Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater."
"Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward."
"Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good."
"A simple life is its own reward."
"Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment."
"Love is the reward of love."
"The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it."
"You don't reward reaction; you reward results."
"Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy."
"In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great."
"All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!"
"I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else."
"God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter."