Reward Quotes

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Love is love's reward.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.