Intrinsic Reward Quotes

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Good work is such an incredible payoff. And I know that I'll be working until the end, because good work excites me.

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.