Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Steyn

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Mike Murdock

Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

Mike Murdock

Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.

Mignon McLaughlin

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

John Ruskin

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Liz Vassey

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Euripides

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Jean Cocteau

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Erich Maria Remarque

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

Greg Jackson

My reward is that I can touch their life.

Billy Corgan

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

C. S. Lewis

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Henry David Thoreau

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

Grover Cleveland

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

Gina Barreca

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Harry S Truman

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

We watch what they do in their play time, and we reward them for doing it. It's pretty much as simple as that, really.

Dana Stabenow

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

Dwight L. Moody

The reward of service is more service.