reward quotes

Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms127:3^5.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 4:9^10.

And whosoever shallgiveto drinkunto one of theselittle ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:42.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

- Rita Mae Brown
  Bingo, ch.35.

Re  compensez, avancez ce jeune homme; car, si l'on e  tait ingrat envers lui, il s'avancerait de lui-me"  me. Reward that young man, promote him; for if his services are not recognised, he will promote himself.

- General Jean Fran c° ois Coquille Dugommier
 Comment to the Minister for  War, speaking of the 24-year- old Napoleon Bonaparte, after the siege of  Toulon. Quoted in John  Julius Norwich Venice (1981).

The only reward of virtueisvirtue; theonly way tohavea friend is to be one.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  'New England Reformers', lecture to the Society, 3 Mar.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own reward.

- George Farquhar
  The Inconstant, act 4, sc.2.

We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God therefore let him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

   The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

- Pierre Auguste Renoir
From Renoir's notebook, quoted in L Nochlin Impressionism and Post-Impressionism1874^1904 (1966).

Great God! This is anawful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

- Robert Falcon Scott
  Journal entry,18 Jan. Scott's Last Expedition:The Personal Journals of Captain R F Scott, CVO, RN, on His Journey to the South Pole (published1923).

We will do our best to reward your faith in us, but please give us the opportunity to serve our country, that is all we ask.

-John Smith
  Address to a European Gala Dinner,11 May.They were his final public words; he died the next morning of a heart attack.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 8 stanza 2.