Character Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

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

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of…

— Max Heindel

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.…

— Alexis Carrel

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

— Gottfried Leibniz

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

Virtue is its own reward.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson