We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.
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We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.