Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
Richard V. Allen

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napolean Hill

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Jeremy Taylor

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
George Byron

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.
Paul Parker

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.
Robert Vaughn

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
John Hickenlooper

Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward.
Jason Zebehazy

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Rowan D. Williams

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila