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Tag Name "Reward" (817)

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Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
Jean Cocteau
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
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The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
Michael Moorcock
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That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
Deepak Chopra
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
Jane Austen
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Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
John Perry Barlow
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Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
Rufus Wainwright
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If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
Don Roff
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I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
Marilynne Robinson
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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
John Dewey
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Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
Charles Caleb Colton
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You don't reward reaction you reward results.
Edwin Louis Cole
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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Voltaire
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The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
Mark Steyn
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
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Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty fixes that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.
Naomi Wolf
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
Robert Grudin
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Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
Friedrich Schiller
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Writing is its own reward.
Henry Miller
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand
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I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.
William Mapother
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