Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

There is nothing greater in life, than doing great things for others, with no reward but their smile.

— Nishan Panwar

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives…

— Seneca the Younger

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

— Govindappa Venkataswamy

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

— Allen Ginsberg

There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the…

— Nikki Sixx

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

— Noam Chomsky

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever…

— Andrew Wiles

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

— Richard Marx

“that God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”

— Colleen Hoover

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

— Alain de Botton

For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

— George Eliot

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them…

— Donna Tartt

“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”

— Doug Dorst

“There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.”

— Alan Brennert