Top 230 Rewarding Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Rewarding Quotes from famous people such as Ben Mendelsohn, Paul Nassif, Alex Wolff, Robert H. Grubbs, Tommaso Ciampa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do.

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.
Ben Mendelsohn
I chose a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery because it’s very rewarding to watch someone with broken bones or bad scars return to normal.
Paul Nassif
It was fun in its own way, but I think ‘Dahmer’ was ultimately one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and my career.
Alex Wolff
One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst.
Robert H. Grubbs
The reaction from the fans has, quite possibly, been the most rewarding part of the journey thus far. I feel as though the fans have grown with me over the past 12 years through both triumph and disappointment.
Tommaso Ciampa
As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
Mariella Frostrup
The most rewarding thing for someone like me is for someone else to find solace through my music.
Kelela
Getting new information through Web-surfing almost always feels more rewarding than having to generate new information in the work that is in front of us. It therefore takes increasing amounts of self-discipline to stay on task.
Daniel Levitin
Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but right away I found that not eating meat made me feel good about myself. It increased my self-esteem, which I found so rewarding, I wanted to do more.
Steve-O
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall – that when the play is finished, it’s done – but now I realise it’s more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You’re part of a thing that’s living.
Lee Hall
I think living in our culture right now, there’s a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that’s rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.
Mike White
Directing ‘When You Find Me’ was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
Julian Baggini
It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.
Pamela Nicholson
When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it’s really painful.
KT Tunstall
It’s hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it’s not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time.
Simon Helberg
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
Chris Van Allsburg
I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there’s one or two people and they say, ‘Great job, Mayor,’ that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling – I think they should see the doctor.
Michael Bloomberg
Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.
Janet Yellen
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
Frederick Sanger
Every artist has different priorities. Some artists I know don’t make as much music as they used to, because social media has taken over their lives. I work at what I feel is a very normal pace, and things keep clicking. It’s rewarding.
Mark Kozelek
My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don’t have kids, or there are even some moms who think it’s cheesy. It’s a role you can’t prepare for; it’s a role you don’t get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it’s been the most fulfilling.
Vanessa Lachey
It’s the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
Sargent Shriver
A lot of my peers, be seniors or juniors, they’ll text me or they’ll call me and they’ll say, ‘Thank you for doing the music that you do because it pushes the genre forward in different ways.’ It’s a very rewarding thing to hear.
Eric Nam
Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack Obama
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra
I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
Aaron Eckhart
My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn’t know existed.
Steve Harvey
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.
Theo Epstein
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
Christopher Eccleston
It was tough doing ‘Underneath the Lintel’ in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.
Richard Schiff
The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing

The room is full of such talent. It’s a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It’s the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.
Julianna Margulies
Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
Kevin Brady
Asking me why I did or didn’t do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I’ll do in the future is even less rewarding.
Lawrence Block
Helping people get the skills they need to set them up for a rewarding career helps keep people in Connecticut, and it ensures that we have a workforce that’s ready to fill the thousands of manufacturing jobs of the future.
Chris Murphy
There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise.
Nancy Reagan
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won’t make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn’t make you motivated. It doesn’t make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
Clayton M. Christensen
It’s such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There’s nothing quite like it.
Jefferson Mays
Doing comedy stuff is maybe more fun, but maybe the serious stuff is a little bit more rewarding.
Adam Page
When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage’s school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back – by giving time, not just money – was so rewarding.
Holly Branson
Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it’s frustrating, it’s sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.
Matt Smith
When you’re doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it’s the most rewarding thing.
Dennis Edwards
I know it’s a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it’s more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
Andrew Wiles
For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You’re in charge of all aspects of production and get to see your vision come to life every week.
Stephanie Savage
Being a part of the ‘Hamilton’ family has been the most thrilling and rewarding experience of my career.
Christopher Jackson
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
Biz Stone
As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.
Kirsten Gillibrand
For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.
Andrea Seigel
Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I’ve learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.
Marie Lu
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
Loretta Young
They pollute. It’s not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.
Vaclav Smil
I don’t think anything’s more rewarding than hearing that you’ve helped someone gain a love of reading.
James Dashner
The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can do that – if you can do that – at whatever level, that’s rewarding.
Greg Sestero