Rewarded Quotes

See also Reward Quotes

I hope we just maintain our identity, which is harder to do now. It takes more work. But I think the harder it is to do, the more rewarding it is. When I go to shul or do something with the Jewish community, I feel rewarded and get a lot out of it, and I hope we can all continue to do that. (On Jews)

- Ricky Ullman

(from a 1967 interview) "I just knew that if you engaged the audience with a promise that something would develop, you were in business. If not, you had to contrive automatic ridiculousness continuously. Comedy, in this sense, is all about preparation. Things have to be arranged and set up - cause and effect - and if the cause is apparent to the audience, they`ll stick with it until their sagacity is rewarded. It`s their intelligence that foresees things, while the comic character doesn`t."

- George Stevens

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don`t think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night. I can look at my child and know that, to my daughter, I`m the best example I can possibly be. (2005)

- Brooke Shields

Well, a couple of times I had people come have a talk with me, but I was operating, for the most part, on two hours of sleep a night, and I realized, I can`t do this and last very long." So I cleaned up (in the early 90`s) and THEN the jobs stopped coming. You clean up your life and think you`re supposed to be rewarded for it, but things actually got worse. On the other hand, if I hadn`t sobered up, I probably wouldn`t be alive today." - On his recovery from cocaine addiction.

- Dennis Quaid

Surrender to life itself and you`ll just be rewarded with so many things. And I`ve been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

- Jason Mraz

I think we played great a great match. We got countless scoring chances but weren`t rewarded in the end, just punished,

- Michael Ballack

I gave him my son, and I got rewarded,

- Bill Bell

It was an amazing performance because it`s not easy to sit through a long rain delay and have the same intensity. It`s not easy to start and stop, and that`s what Matt did successfully. When you start and stop, it`s easy to bow out of the situation, but he didn`t do it. And he was rewarded for it.

- Gabe Kapler

We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.

- George Porter

We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.

- George Porter

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

- Scott Hamilton

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

- Brandon Boyd

We got to finish what we started. We got something good going on right now. We got to finish what we started. And that`s the regular season. If we take care of our business then we`ll be rewarded with some good things.

- Mike Alstott

We`re getting rewarded. We don`t give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

- Peter Bondra

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

- Barack Obama

Courage is always rewarded.

- Kenny Loggins

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It`s one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

- Russell Banks

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

- Simone de Beauvoir

I admire people for staying and trying to fix the problems, but we have other agencies out there that had problems and fixed them, and they are not getting rewarded,

- John Boyd

We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the barriers of language or culture or custom come between us. We are united in the call for justice. We know that every good work is rewarded ten-fold.

- Emily Smith

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

- Ambrose Bierce

(These CEOs) are rewarded for decisions that may help the corporate bottom line, but at the same time are very costly for U.S. workers and communities.

- Sarah Anderson

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

- Addie Ince

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

- Ahmad Shah Massood

The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.

- Alberto Korda

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

- Alex Maskey

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn`t only new ones who suffer from that.

- Alex Urquhart

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

- Alexis Gordon

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

- Ana Guerriero

The desire to be rewarded for one`s creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

- Ana Guerriero

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

- Angela Sgrignuoli

It takes a lot of commitment but it was a family thing. It`s good for everybody to do together, and they all become your family. It`s one of the most important things in our lives, and we`re rewarded every day.

- Anthony Acoff

I think people are pretty happy with the BHP result but the share price has not done much. These days you don`t get rewarded for a good result just hammered for a bad one,

- Anthony Ricco

I think people are pretty happy with the BHP result but the share price has not done much. These days you don`t get rewarded for a good result just hammered for a bad one.

- Anthony Ricco

He`s an emerging young player. I don`t think he should be expected to dominate this year, but he should be very rewarded from being around the leadership and experience that`s been brought in. That will help make him the player he can be.

- Anthony Vasiliou

Companies that are reporting good results are being rewarded, but it`s not really having too much of a carryover effect into other stocks,

- Art Hoppe

certain areas of the government appeared to be rewarded with jobs.

- B.D. Evans

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

- Samuel Johnson

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What`s there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

- John Dobbin

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

- Joseph Story

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

- Thomas S. Szasz