If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
— Buddha
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.
A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood
Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.
— Kreeshna
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?
What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
God's delays are not God's denials.
Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.