Quotes on Great Reward

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you. And even if sufferings had no other reward than being able to bear something for that God who loves you, is not this a great reward and a sufficient remuneration? Whoever loves, understands what I say.