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• Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from May 03, 2016

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• Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

  Bill Hybels

  Discipline, Heaven, Doe

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• Aligning what you do with who you are requires commitment, effort, and perseverance. But the rewards are well worth it. Not only will it enhance the quality of your life, it may even prolong it.

  Lauren Mackler

  Perseverance, Commitment, Effort

  "How to Avoid Job Dissatisfaction" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.

  William J. Clinton

  Eye, Turns, Prize

  "Clinton tells Ulster 'don't turn back'" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.36, Barbour Publishing

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Hands

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

  Albert Einstein

  Success, Determination, Helping Others

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Causes, Goodness, Chains

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.1830, e-artnow

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• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Happiness, Depression

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1681, Library of Alexandria

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• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Fitness, Teacher

  On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.

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• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

  L. Tom Perry

  Good Life, Integrity, Character

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• He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

  Confucius

  Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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• All for love, and nothing for reward.

  Edmund Spenser

  Love, Falling In Love, Love You

  The Faerie Queen bk. 2, canto 8, st. 2 (1596)

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• Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

  Jerry Bridges

  Practice, Talking, Faithful

  Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  Victor Borge

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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• The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

  Jules Renard

  Men, Long, Died

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.65, Tin House Books

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• I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Horse, Jockeys

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• Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Exercise, Discipline, Goal

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• The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Giving, Influence

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

  Robert Henri

  Awards, Survival, Reason

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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