Rewards Quotes

A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

Revision is its own reward.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Great thinking is its own reward.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There’s no greater reward.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so.

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT

If your goal has no inherent reward, you do not have a goal.

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.