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“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.”
Herbert Spencer
“IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - ’love’ unselfishly for love’s sake.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
Ayn Rand
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Saint Augustine
“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”
Billy Sunday
“If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.”
Victor Borge
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”
John Locke
“It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.”
Barbara McClintock
“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”
John Ruskin