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• Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Adventure, Giving

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• You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heaven, Hell, Knows

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• When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

  Martin Seligman

  Mean, Littles, Take Time

  "11 Little Victories To Celebrate, Just Because" By Kate Bratskeir, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2013.

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• One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

  Jim Rohn

  Way, Teach, One Way

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 24, 2012

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• If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

  Jack Welch

  Risk, Example, Want

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• Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Giving Up, Writing, Editors

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• The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.

  Angus Buchan

  Mother, Children, Father

  Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.167, Monarch Books

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• Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

  Earl Nightingale

  Rewards In Life, Proportion, Direct

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• This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here.

  Julie Kagawa

  Children, Father, Believe

  Julie Kagawa (2012). “The Immortal Rules”, p.221, Harlequin

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• Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

  Alan Kay

  Journey, Civilization, Understanding

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• I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Awards, Brave

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• If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

  Penn Jillette

  Punishment, Morality, Ifs

  "I’m a Christian, but I Enjoyed The Unbelievers" by Mike Lehmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Excellence, Doe, Cream

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.235, A&C Black

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

  Steve Lawson

  Guilty, Salvation, Righteous

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• The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

  C. I. Scofield

  Faithful, Promise, Church

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• It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

  Robert Lipsyte

  Men, Climbing, He Man

  Robert Lipsyte (1967). “The contender”

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• It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

  Phil Ochs

  Struggle, Winning, Politics

  "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.

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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Swim

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Simple, Race, Culture

  Stephanie Dowrick (2006). “Choosing Happiness: Life & Soul Essentials”, p.4, Allen & Unwin

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• The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Good Man, Survivor

  "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments".

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• It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

  Amy Poehler

  Passion, Sleep, Remember You

  "Yes Please". Book by Amy Poehler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2014.

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• This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

  Joshua

  Giving, Sake, Mystery

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• We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

  Warren Berger

  Culture, Inquiry, Answers

  "The Surprising Power of Beautiful Questions". Interview with Scott Goodson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.

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• Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.

  Oliver DeMille

  Responsibility, Pushing, Students

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