Effort Reward Quotes

If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

The strenuous life tastes better

When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I believe that it is not worth it to train from Monday to Friday just to have 20 minutes on the pitch or sit on the bench on Saturday.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

The joy is in the work. The travel is the dues you pay.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.