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Reward Quotes

“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 39. Tom Sawyer in fake letter posing as a gang of robbers intent on stealing Jim from the Phelps farm. It is ironic, because Tom has no intention of doing the right thing. He does the opposite by making Jim’s life rougher and not simply unlocking the shed door to free Jim.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

– Gordon Sinclair

When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you’ve planned, that is the reward. It’s better than the Emmys.

– George Stevens, Jr.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

– Gerry Beckley

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

– James J. Corbett

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

– Jeremy Taylor

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all – to different degrees – unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual’s effort and reward for that effort.

– Jack Kemp

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

– James Surowiecki

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it’s a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

– Jeff Bridges

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

– John Maynard Keynes

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

– James Mattis

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

– John Ruskin

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

– Jim Rohn

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

– Anthony Joshua

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

– Alexander Hamilton

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

– Jean Cocteau

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

– Catherine the Great

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

– Billy Sunday

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

– Charles Babbage

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

– The Bible

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

– Christoph Waltz

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

– Barbara McClintock

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

– Calvin Coolidge

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.
Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

– The Bible

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

– Bob Nelson

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

– Claire Danes

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

– Bill Hybels

In the documentary ‘Facing Ali,’ nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

– Alex Berenson

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