Unearned Rewards Quotes

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.

That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really haven't done anything to earn them yet.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.