Top 98 Is Its Own Reward Quotes
#1. Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
#3. When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#4. On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.
Marsha Hinds
#5. After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
Adam Gopnik
#6. Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.
Mark Rubinstein
#7. When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.
Lisa Unger
#8. I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
Michael Che
#9. Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.
Alain De Botton
#11. Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
John Vanbrugh
#12. If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.
Sting
#13. Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
#14. The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger
#16. The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
Jason Epstein
#18. I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
Alan Furst
#21. Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
#22. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
John Henry Newman
#23. Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton
#24. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
Harper Lee
#25. When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
Immanuel Kant
#26. Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.
Peter James West
#27. In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
Amy Tan
#30. Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward.
David Hewson
#31. The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
Guy Finley
#32. In C++, reinvention is its own reward.
Erik Naggum
#33. Courage is its own reward.
Plautus
#34. Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward.
Aubrey Malphurs
#35. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.
Julian Baggini
#38. Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them.
Mary Jo Weaver
#40. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
#41. We'd like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.
Seth Godin
#42. Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
Paul David Tripp
#43. Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
Teller
#44. It was like his code of honour. Work that needs doing should be done. Work is its own reward. Never step back from work or you look bad.
James Rebanks
#45. Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.
Eloisa James
#46. I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle
#47. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#48. The journey is its own reward.
Homer
#49. Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.
Marcus Samuelsson
#50. Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you'll never have all of them. And that's okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.
Michael Holbrook
#51. If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?
Lauren Bacall
#55. Contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time.
Jane Smiley
#57. Truth is its own reward.
Plato
#63. Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
#64. Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward
or, punishment.
George Eliot
#65. Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.
Charles M. Blow
#68. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
#69. The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
Thomas Kinkade
#71. Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
Seth Godin
#72. Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.
Anna Funder
#73. Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.
Gene Simmons
#76. I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.
Susan Andersen
#77. 'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
Russell Crowe
#78. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
Ayn Rand
#80. Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.
Erving Polster
#81. Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
#82. for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.
Matthew Henry
#83. Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".
Philip Schultz
#85. Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
Dave Eggers
#86. To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
L. Frank Baum
#87. Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.
Kenneth Arrow
#88. Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.
Joseph Kerman
#90. Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron
#91. It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.
Gene Roddenberry
#92. For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Charles Kingsley
#93. For you, pain is the prelude," he said into her lips. "Prelude to what?" "The reward." "What is the pain to you?" "Its own reward," he said, and she saw a shadow cross his face.
Anonymous
#94. Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting ... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
Steve Martin
#96. Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
Samuel Johnson
#97. Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#98. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
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