Rewards Quotations | Page 5

It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal; school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.

It's as close to the Swiss Army Knife of rewards cards as it gets. It all comes down to simple math.

It?s just not something that I, at this age, can really focus on, ... where I don?t feel like I can play as much as some of the younger girls. Unfortunately, while our tour does reward quality, it also rewards quantity.

We were out there for 3 or 3 ½ hours almost every night ... it's good for the kids to see some rewards for their work.

We were out there for 3 or 3 ? hours almost every night ... it's good for the kids to see some rewards for their work.

The public rewards of library enrollment speak for themselves, ... Nowhere else are books, magazines, the Web, audio- and video tapes, CDs, DVDs and more available to all people regardless of economic status.

It's bad to surprise the Street. It's harmful to the stock because investors are looking for the rewards of this big product cycle next year flowing through to earnings.

It was a really good quarter. It seemed to be driven by better results out of New Orleans .... and the Caesar's integration into Total Rewards appears to be capturing a lot of customers.

Those two creatures, who are born of wives of other men, cause to the giver the loss of the rewards , both in this life and after death, for the food sacred to gods or manes which has been given to them .

We want to examine whether the PPRS works well to ensure that pharmaceuticals markets meet the needs of patients by offering adequate rewards to pharmaceutical companies for developing new and useful drugs, while providing the taxpayer with value for money.

We just need to keep playing well and let the chips fall where they fall. Titles and all that stuff are just rewards for playing well. If we can play well against some of the better teams that would be a feather in our caps.

It shows the public rewards leaders. If you lead and say 'this is what we want to do,' even if you don't succeed in the short run, the public will support you. The public supports infrastructure improvements and they see the governor leading.

They preach humanity the virtues of virtuosity and religiousness. God rewards such people by removing all the hurdles from their path.

They're designing a poster for our advertising push. I thought that was kind of neat that these kids are going to be donating their time and getting class rewards for doing that for the community.

Every project has its own challenges and rewards. If it's not challenging, why do it?

I'd have to say that the team defense, starting with Brad (Roberts) in goal, has put us in a position to win each game. I also think that we are starting to reap the rewards of scheduling some tough teams at the beginning of the year.

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own.

Governor Bush understands that hard-working entrepreneurs created the new economy, not government. But, as he has shown in Texas, which leads the nation in high-tech job growth, government can create an environment in which entrepreneurs flourish: an environment that encourages innovation, rewards risk-taking, and promotes equal opportunity.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

When I want to reward myself I get a relaxing massage.

It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

The journey is its own reward.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

Where there is little risk, there is little reward.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.

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

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

The reward for attention is always healing.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.

If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.

The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Great thinking is its own reward.

I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.

We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

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

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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.]

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Virtue is its own reward.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

Service without reward is punishment.

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

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