Rewards Quotes - Page 4

• The journey is the reward

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.53, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ideas, Mind, Literature

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• Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

  Bruce Lee

  Confidence, Self Esteem, People

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Views, Luck

  The Dalai Lama (2001). “Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists”, p.108, Shambhala

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• This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

  Ted Dekker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Jul 14, 2012

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• I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Time, Giving Up

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Life, Happiness, Real

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• The dreams I chased took me on a journey,a journey more rewarding than the goals

  Shahrukh Khan

  Inspirational, Dream, Ambition

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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• You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Pain, Love You, Order

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.522, Oxford Paperbacks

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• No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

  Joseph Brant

  Leadership, Justice, Brave

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• One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

  Ibn Majah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Doers

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• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  Eamon de Valera

  Being Strong, Justice, Acting

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• Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Vices, Green

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• Vice is its own reward.

  Quentin Crisp

  Vices, Virtue, Vice And Virtue

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• Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

  George Farquhar

  Prison, Virtue, Crime

  'The Inconstant' (1702) act 4, sc. 2

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• Success is the reward for toil.

  Sophocles

  Toil, Classroom

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• Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

  Julian Bond

  Umpires, Justice, Needs

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• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

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• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Veterans Day, Military

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The journey is its own reward.

  Homer

  Journey

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• The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Our Society, Technique

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.120, Penguin

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• The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Play, Satisfaction

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• The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Quality, Precarious

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