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October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
John Wesley
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I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.
Serena Williams
'I abhor defeat in all its forms... However, it is my defeats that have taught me the most. Success may be God's gift, but failure is his lesson.'
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Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.
J. R. D. Tata
Friendly interpersonal interactions not only provide tremendous personal fulfillment but are critical to the prosperity of any business.
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There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We possess within ourselves the capacity for compassionate acts that can surpass our comprehension; for altruistic contribution without expectation of recompense; for attentive receptiveness without condemnation; for adoring without restrictions.
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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
Achievement yields its own gratification, yet disappointment is an insightful professor as well and should not be dreaded.
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Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Emmanuel Levinas
Confidence that altruism is commendable regardless of recompense.
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Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday
Eternal damnation is the ultimate recompense that Satan can bestow upon you for being a minion of his.
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If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
You can achieve all your aspirations if you are willing to lend a hand to others in achieving theirs.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
Adam Gopnik
'Riding the merry-go-round is its own gratification. Carousels wouldn't exist if it wasn't so enjoyable.'
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I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.
John Glenn
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
Ramakrishna
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When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.
Martin Seligman
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If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.
Hassan al-Banna
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One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.
Ibn Majah
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Erich Maria Remarque
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It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
Maimonides
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young
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Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey Mackay
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To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.
Choi Hong Hi
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Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Diogenes
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Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.
Guglielmo Marconi
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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
Bill Watterson
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We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.
H. Emilie Cady
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The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
Michael Moorcock
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt
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It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
Abu Bakr
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All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.
William Tyndale
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Where there is little risk, there is little reward.
Evel Knievel
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The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
Gertrude B. Elion
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Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.
Jeff Galloway
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The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
John Dewey
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Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.
Jessica Biel
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Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.
Omar Khayyam
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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
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To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.
John Templeton
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
Bill W.
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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.
Richard Dawkins
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Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
Liz Vassey
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To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.
Brian Weiss
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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
Erik Naggum
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The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.
Mike Sager
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Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.
Oliver DeMille
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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
Bruce Lee
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Money is merely a reward for solving problems.
Mike Murdock