Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they’re doing things because they’re right, because they live by a moral code.

I have always observed that we usually get at least some of the other reward for what we do, just like an appreciation.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth’s surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

It was an amazing performance because it’s not easy to sit through a long rain delay and have the same intensity. It’s not easy to start and stop, and that’s what Matt did successfully. When you start and stop, it’s easy to bow out of the situation, but he didn’t do it. And he was rewarded for it.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence, in the end, is rewarded.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it’s hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.