reward

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

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

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

The reward of suffering is experience.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.