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Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Ambition's true reward can only be gotten without ambition's trade. – Leslie Miklosy	added by scrutinizer00 11 years ago
If you're cheap in your dealings, you only attract a cheapskates reward. – Mike Gegelman	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The son who delights his father by his good actions; the wife who seeks only her husband?s good; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity?these three things are the reward of virtue. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Countries that quit producing real products, spend more than they produce, lag in education, burden their middle class with higher taxes, and continue to import billions from other countries, bail out failed businesses and reward bad behavior instead of investing in good businesses, will eventually lose their leadership and wealth – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
Any good reward well deserved is well preserved. – Jacqueline Job	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. – John Maynard Keynes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward. – John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now. – Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. – Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. – Samuel Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. – Robert G. Ingersoll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. – John Locke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. – William Congreve, The Mourning Bride	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. – Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. – Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The only reward for love is the experience of loving. – John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward – Edwin P. Whipple	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward. – Zig Ziglar	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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