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• Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

  Sallust

  Great Reward

  'Catiline' ch. 21

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• The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Civilization, World, Labour

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• Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

  Norman Mailer

  Anxiety, Courage To Love

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.195, Random House

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• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

  Hesiod

  Eye, Design, Spy

  Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Order

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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• The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

  Harlan Ellison

  Baby, Sex, Fun

  Harlan Ellison (1975). “Partners in Wonder”

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• People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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• The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fear, Rejection, Trying

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• God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Humility, Compassion, Grace

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• Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

  Ramakrishna

  Attachment, Expectations

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• I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

  Zoroaster

  Teaching, Heart, Men

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• I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Loss, Suffering

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.148

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• Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Work, Inspire, Toil

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• You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

  Aristippus

  Liars, Lying, Believe

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• Virtue is indeed its own reward.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Virtue

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• That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

  Max Muller

  Men, Done, Deeds

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

  Nelson Goodman

  Confusion, Effort, Obscurity

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

  Marilu Henner

  Children, Parent, Treats

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• Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

  Jim Jordan

  Team, Views, Political

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• I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Bars, Cards, Coexist

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• Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

  Otto Rank

  Acceptance, Men, Self

  Otto Rank (2012). “Beyond Psychology”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Tasks

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• Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Reality, Risk, Perception

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• Good coffee is a benefit, but great coffee is a reward, and the difference between good and great is just pennies a day.

  Richard Wyckoff

  Coffee, Differences, Benefits

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