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• A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Arbitrary, Conformity, Talent

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• There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

  John Moulder Wilson

  Best Effort, Punishment, Two

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• There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

  John Hancock

  Patriotic, Glasses, Names

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• Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Knowing, Giving

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• Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

  Thomas Aquinas

  Giving, Dying, Ransom

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• Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Struggle, Journey, Soul

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• Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Choices, May

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Tired, Men

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• We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.

  Jewel

  Sight, Organization, Effort

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• The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

  John Hancock

  Names, Ministry, British

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• Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.

  Ricky Gervais

  Loyalty, Encouragement, People

  "The Office". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001 - 2003.

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• Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...
  As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

  Sark

  Girl, Nice, Safety

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• No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.

  Sark

  Nice, Suffering, Dry

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• My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

  Walt Disney

  Business, Organization, Able

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do not lose hope. Yet a little while and your Helper will come to you and will not tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3).

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Cfs, Perfect

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• I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.

  Archie Carr

  Writing, Marine, Turtles

  Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Opposites, People

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• I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Monday, Morning

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Love Is, Path Of Love

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• If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

  Chael Sonnen

  Mma, Risk, Looks

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• There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

  Alan Jackson

  Children, Work, Hero

  Song: Working Class Hero

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• If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

  Alfie Kohn

  Issues, Doe, Pay

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• I want to make sure that everything that I'm creating, I'm creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that's the reward that you get for that.

  Joe Rogan

  Mma, Creating, People

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• If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Risk, Why Not

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• Forgiveness is its own reward.

  Rickson Gracie

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