Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

David Paul

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

David Platt

The primary reward of the gospel - God himself

Richard Bach

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Robert Fripp

The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes unreal.

Sylvia Browne

Death is the reward for living

Simone Weil

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Thucydides

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

Sting

One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

Tamora Pierce

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Swami Vivekananda

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Tom Peters

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Tom Peters

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Michael Pollan

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

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.

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.

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.