A Quote by John Vanbrugh

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

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Like Love Own Reward Virtue

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John Vanbrugh
English - Architect
January 24, 1664 - March 26, 1726

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

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

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

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.

Stephen Birmingham

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Charles Kingsley

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

Jane Austen

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

Harper Lee

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

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

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 indeed its own reward.