“The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.” WayPersonsArtEnoughArtistInterestingWonderPathWonderfulSubjectsEffectsPolicyProductsMonthsGainsOriginalsRewardsWaveTendenciesOddShockingAbsentClevernessHurdleTidal WavesAbsent Minded Author:Jacques Barzun
“Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.” PowerRecordsGainsGardenRewardsGingerFalsification Author:Samuel R. Delany
“Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.” TryingMeanReasonMoralityGainsRewardsBe GoodApprovalReally Mean Author:Richard Dawkins
“Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!” HumansHeartSoulEnoughBeautifulObjectsHolyGainsRewardsDeeperInwardHuman Soul Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.” GivingHeartFeelingsHandsLostGriefJudgingGainsMercyRewardsContraryTheeThyself Author:Thomas a Kempis
“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.” IfsReligiousPleasureVirtueHighestGainsRewardsSakeSelfishTruest Author:John Henry Newman
“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?” IfsWritingTwoEnoughCoursesFoundGivenHoursSpaceWonderEmotionalReadyIntellectualGainsSalvationRewardsStartingPrizeTime And SpaceWaitressCourse Of Life Author:Ann Patchett
“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.” TryingMeanStillsReasonMovingSkyMoralityGainsCamerasRewardsBe GoodPunishmentShouldersApplesApprovalReally MeanSurveillanceDisapprovalMonitoringSurveillance Cameras Author:Richard Dawkins
“Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.” IfsMeanSaidEndsHardPainHateTurnsEasyPathSacrificeSweetDutyTasteConceptsGainsI HateRewardsBitterPeacefulThese DaysFrankReapSourNo PainEasy ThingsNo Pain No GainBitter Taste Book:The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2) Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)
“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!” IfsRichGainsRewardsSeekingDragons Book:Catholic Tales and Christian Songs Source: Catholic Tales and Christian Songs