The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything. . . doing unselfishly.
Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape. . . I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
If your goal has no inherent reward, you do not have a goal.
It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart. . . how it lifts us up and brings us down. . . the wonder of life.
You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards. . . Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!
The frame is the reward of the artist.
Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.
You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.
Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.
The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.
Successful people. . . focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
Once women find a way to form community, everyone reaps the rewards.