Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant. - Saurabh Sharma
it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad as i think i need to be.i think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rewarded - Paulo Coelho
One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale. - China Miéville
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir
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
Those who feel nothing, gain nothing. Think about this. If you do not feel, your desires don't exist and cannot be rewarded. - R.A.Delmonico
I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences. - Hollace M. Metzger
When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded. - Walter Isaacson
You will not be rewarded for your good nature. Your good nature is your reward. - Debasish Mridha
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. - Margaret Mead
Help without expecting a direct or immediate payback. You will get rewarded. - Auliq-Ice
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too. - Steven Moffat
But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace. - Sheryl Sandberg
It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know. - Nelson Mandela
All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off. - Don J. Snyder
Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded. - Santosh Kalwar
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust. - David Shore
The kind person is rewarded by nature. - Radostin Chernev
How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit. - Andre Dubus
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. - Andre Dubus
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded. - Imran Khan
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. - Og Mandino
We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day. - Gary Hopkins
You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust. - Compton Gage
There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain. - Keith Johnstone
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.
Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need. - Craig Mercier
Faith is irrational, which is why those who exercise it are rewarded irrationally. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Persistence and determination are always rewarded. - Christine Rice
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy. - Imran Khan