A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.
For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Love is love's reward.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a Forever 21 and know that all of this was started by a simple Korean immigrant with a dream.
Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Peace is its own reward.
What you measure and reward is what you're going to get.
Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.
