Reward
To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
Regard; respect; consideration.
That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
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Reward Quotations
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
Reward Translations
reward in Afrikaans is vergelding, beloon
reward in Dutch is vergelden, lonen, terugdoen, belonen
reward in German is Belohnung
reward in Italian is gratificare, compenso
reward in Latin is praemium, remuneror, pretium, merces mercedis
reward in Portuguese is recompensa
reward in Spanish is recompensa, galardonar
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