Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.
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.
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.
The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
The reward of suffering is experience
free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
Salvation never will come through hope of reward.
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
Being nuts is its own reward.
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
There is no reward without sacrifice.