389 Quotes About Rewards

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.