Character Quote by John Vanbrugh Download Open image “Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.” — John Vanbrugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Doing good History Pay Pleasure Rewards Standards Virtue Virtue Is Its Own Reward
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
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… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
“Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!” — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
“How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image