There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
There's a satisfaction that comes from finishing a task that requires mental discipline. It's a pleasure unique to the human condition.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.