Quotes On Virtue Is Its Own Reward

#1. Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

John Vanbrugh

#6. 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

#7. Virtue is its own reward.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. 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

#9. Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them.

Mary Jo Weaver

#10. Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Aristotle.

#11. Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza

#13. Love's like virtue, its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

#14. The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

John Cassian

#15. 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

#16. Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

George Washington

#17. In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
[Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

Ovid

#18. Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

#19. Reward is its own virtue.

Carolyn Wells

#20. God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" ... Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, " ... and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."

Ibn Ata Allah

#21. Virtue is to herself the best reward.

Henry More

#22. It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#23. In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last.

William Shakespeare

#24. On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.

Marsha Hinds

#25. Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

George William Curtis

#26. Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Izaak Walton

#27. 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

#28. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#29. Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Mae West

#30. The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

Harper Lee

#32. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#33. No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Gertrude Atherton

#34. 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

#35. It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.

Orson Scott Card

#36. I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

Norman Mailer

#37. If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

Luc De Clapiers

#38. If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

John Of The Cross

#39. While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#40. 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

#41. For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Charles Kingsley

#42. 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

#43. If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#44. 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

#45. The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

#46. Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Jeremy Taylor

#47. You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#48. Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Baruch Spinoza

#49. That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#50. The reward of virtue will be God himself, who gave the virtue, together with the promise of himself, the best and greatest of all possible promises. For

Augustine Of Hippo

#51. Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Baruch Spinoza

#52. Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.

Joseph Kerman

#53. 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

#54. Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Walter Lippmann

#55. 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

#56. If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

Marquis De Sade

#57. Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Jane Austen

#58. Virtue is her own reward.

John Dryden

#59. Honor is the reward of virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#60. Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

Brandon Sanderson

#61. Virtue was its own reward.

Louisa May Alcott

#62. If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

Thiruvalluvar

#63. Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Ayn Rand