Rewards Quotes
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Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.
Ian Gardner -
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
Aristotle
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The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
Brian Tracy -
And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Og Mandino -
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
Malcolm Cowley -
Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
Alfie Kohn -
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Emmanuel Levinas
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If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.
Alfie Kohn -
suffering sweetens the reward
F. E. Higgins -
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.
Albert Einstein -
America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
Mark Steyn -
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
Alfie Kohn -
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
Thomas Kinkade
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The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.
D. T. Suzuki -
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.
Stephanie Coontz -
The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.
Colin Fletcher -
All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.
William Tyndale -
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.
John Holt -
Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.
Oliver DeMille
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
Martin Luther -
When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.
Morgan Spurlock -
Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.
Mike Murdock -
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
Sebastian Faulks