Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work. — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far… — Jack White Copy Share Image
If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it… — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV.… — Kyla Pratt Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response… Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other. — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great. — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction. — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image