It’s not that the risk isn’t worth the reward, it’s that the reward isn’t worth as much as another reward, which also has a lesser risk.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...

It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for...

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and...

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.

I’m the sort of guy who will accept blame, if it means being singled out as honest and honorable, and there’s a chance I’ll be rewarded.

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.

Enroll your body, soul and spirit and engage your time to do what you know best. Dedicate yourself to the work at hand and you will be rewarded by the fruits you will bear!

God rewards a person not for the deeds he does openly, but according to the thoughts and actions he has in secret.

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs...

A companion gave me his credit card to pay for an exam that was dear to my heart. Pretty much an hour for the paper to begin, I went to the Administration to make payment....

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn’t its own punishment as much as it’s supposed to be its own reward.

If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!

the biggest reward of a lifetime is finishing day after day with a smile in you face.

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse,

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never left such roads, were never tempted to peruse those easy successes which, for...

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

Leadership is not a job you take, it’s a decision you make. It pays no money, yet has the greatest reward

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Service is what makes you deserve honor, not severeness

Life isn’t as magical here, and you’re not the only one who feels like you don’t belong, or that it’s better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is...

Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge… so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that...

I don’t get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there...

I’m rewarded, uh, I mean punished, with a slap to my backside.

Persistence and determination are always rewarded.

Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.

Reward is not a previledge, reward is justice for work well done

God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.

I’ve been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

Reflection can be its own reward.

My mom is all about risk vs. reward. So for example, if I were to go out on a date and have unprotected sex, the risk/reward would be possible STD for me vs. possible grandchild...

Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs, as well as more...

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember,...

Don’t ever think that life is unfair. People may be different in status and identity, but what matters most is your personality. God created all humans with equal love and attention. In times that you...

Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.

Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

A man shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.