You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.
There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Identify It, Hire It, Nurture It, Reward It, Protect It. And when the time comes, Fire It.
The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.
Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There’s no greater reward.
God rewards according to the mannerin which He is conceived or approached.
Reward the behavior you want repeated.
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.
Service without reward is punishment.
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.