Kenneth Arrow Quotes

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Virtue is her own reward.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Virtue is its own reward.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

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.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

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.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

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

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

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

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

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

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

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

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

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.