Sayings about Rewards
Two things rule the world … rewards and punishment. ~ Bosnian Proverbs
Reward sweetens labor. ~ Dutch Proverbs
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it. ~ Latin Proverbs
A foolish bride gets no presents. ~ Indian Proverbs
It is better to receive awards that you don’t deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Children are the reward of life. ~ Congolese Proverbs
Present to the eye, present to the mind. ~ Chinese Proverb
I give a present to the mother but I think of the daughter. ~ German Proverbs
He who gives a monkey as a present doesn’t keep hold of its tail. ~ Ivorian Proverbs
When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked. ~ Danish Proverbs
The journey is the reward. ~ Chinese Proverb
We make big promises to avoid little presents. ~ French Proverbs
Living is not a reward and dying is no crime. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
The consequence is the reward of the cause. ~ Japanese Proverb
The devil gives even rich men presents. ~ Romanian Proverbs
Alms given openly will be rewarded in secret. ~ Chinese Proverb
Poverty is the reward of idleness. ~ Dutch Proverb
Run as hard as a wild beast if you will, but you won’t get any reward greater than that destined for you. ~ Egyptian Proverb
When someone gives you a drop of water reward him with a never ending source. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Rewards
My awards are lovely. I love to show them of. ~ Doris Roberts
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. ~ Gerald Early
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one and not deserve it! ~ Mark Twain
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.~ Aristotle
Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win. ~ Mariska Hargitay
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. ~ Quentin Crisp
The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ~ Jayne Crook
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies. ~ J. T. Towbridge
God’s delays are not God’s denials. ~ Robert H. Schuller
The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood. ~ Phillip C. Grant
Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. ~ Author Unknown
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. ~ John Bardeen
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ~ E. V. Cooke
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given. ~ Pamela Glenconner
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. ~ Mark Twain
An award doesn’t necessarily make you a better actor. ~ Javier Bardem
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family.. ~ Og Mandino
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. ~ Robert Graves
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films. ~ Gloria Stuart
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will. ~ Albert Einstein
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. ~ William Penn
No man who does a good deed should expect gratitude. The reward of a good deed is in having done it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ~ Joseph Heller
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ~ Jonas Salk
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. ~ Earl Nightingale
Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it. ~ Author Unknown
I love awards, especially if I get them. ~ Ben Gazzara
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ~ William Congreve
I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. ~ Daniel D. Mich
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. ~ Booker T. Washington
Instant gratification takes too long. ~ Carrie Fisher
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. ~ Jules Renard
The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted. ~ George Noel Gordon
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