Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.
What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.
Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.
in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.