A Quote by Harper Lee

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

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
American - Novelist
April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

Harper Lee

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

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Milton Friedman

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

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

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

Charles Kingsley

Virtue is its own reward.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reward is its own virtue.

Carolyn Wells

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

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudius Claudianus

Virtue is her own reward.

John Dryden

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

C. S. Lewis

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