Inner Reward Quotes

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.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Virtue is its own revenge.

In the struggle for justice the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.

The reward is found in the work.