Rewards Quotes

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Service without reward is punishment.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

The industrial revolution was accomplished by a group of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care, and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communication workers, garbagemen and firemen. These people -- the employed, the somewhat privileged -- are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

The great defect in the past custom is that executive patronage has come to be regarded as the property of the party in power.

If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.

Being nuts is its own reward.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Playing motivates players.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

There are two means by which states are maintained in their weal and greatness--reward and penalty: the one for the good, the other for the bad. And, if the distribution of these two be faulty, nothing else is to be expected than the inevitable ruin of the state... .

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.