Defeat Quote by Tom Robbins

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

— Maya Angelou

Reward is its own virtue.

— Carolyn Wells

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

— Hill Harper

“People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed they always demand payment.”

— L. Frank Baum

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

— Sophia Loren

“For a little reward men make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarce lift a foot once from the ground. Mean reward…

— Thomas à Kempis

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a…

— Samuel Johnson

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those…

— William James

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The greatest reward is to be found in the pursuit of a cause greater than ourselves, where we prevail not as individuals but as…

— Wayne Lincourt

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

— Anonymous