Top 100 Its Own Reward Quotes
#2. The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.
Nick Earls
#4. 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
#7. If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?
Lauren Bacall
#8. Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you'll never have all of them. And that's okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.
Michael Holbrook
#10. Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.
Marcus Samuelsson
#11. The journey is its own reward.
Homer
#12. Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
Lionel Shriver
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
Al Jarreau
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
Teller
#21. Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
Paul David Tripp
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.
Harry Truman
#28. Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.
Elizabeth Aston
#29. Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them.
Mary Jo Weaver
#31. 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
#33. If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
Luc De Clapiers
#34. It was justice," Stannis said. "A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. You were a hero and a smuggler.
George R R Martin
#35. Santa Claus ran his finger across the rough parchment, lightly tracing the inscription below. "Charity unto others brings its own reward," he whispered.
Brom
#37. Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.
Joseph Kerman
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
#41. To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
L. Frank Baum
#42. The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.
Daniel H. Pink
#45. We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.
Bertrand Russell
#46. 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
#47. Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
Dave Eggers
#48. Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward
or, punishment.
George Eliot
#49. Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
Jane Austen
#50. Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
Seth Godin
#51. Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
#52. 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
#59. If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.
Tony Hsieh
#61. 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
#62. Truth is its own reward.
Plato
#63. 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
#66. I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.
Seanan McGuire
#67. 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
#68. Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger
#69. The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you.
Frederick Lenz
#70. 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
#71. '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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
John Vanbrugh
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#82. 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
#84. After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
Adam Gopnik
#85. On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.
Marsha Hinds
#86. When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#89. Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.
Erving Polster
#91. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
#93. Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward.
Aubrey Malphurs
#94. Courage is its own reward.
Plautus
#95. In C++, reinvention is its own reward.
Erik Naggum
#96. The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
Guy Finley
#97. 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
#98. Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
Harry Graham
