What is reward?

Famous quotes containing the word reward:

“Faith is believing what you do not see; the reward of faith is to see what you believe.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)