Quotes about Reward

I was smarter when I was 15, 16 than when I was 18 to 26, because instead of caving in to being cool, I stuck close to my convictions and I was rewarded.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do—the actual act of writing—turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.