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- The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
- The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
- Vernon Sanders Law
- Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
- Joaquin Setanti
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- Patricia Sampson
- Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
- Dan McKinnon
- To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
- Margaret Fairless Barber
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