Virtue is her own reward. [ Drydon ]

The reward of valour in war. [ Motto ]

Honor is the reward of virtue. [ Cicero ]

The reward of love is jealousy. [ Proverb ]

Leisure is the reward of labour. [ Proverb ]

Honour is the reward of fidelity. [ Motto ]

Ingratitude is the world's reward. [ German Proverb ]

Love's like virtue, its own reward. [ Vanbrugh ]

The only reward of virtue is virtue. [ Emerson ]

Service without reward is punishment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A scoff is the reward of bashfulness. [ Proverb ]

Virtue is to herself the best reward. [ Henry Moore ]

Pleasure is the reward of moderation.

Ambition has but one reward tor all:
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading name! [ William Winter ]

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. [ William Congreve ]

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward - vice punishment. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Literature, like virtue, is its own reward. [ Chesterfield ]

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [ Horace ]

Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. [ Ovid ]

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

The proper reward of the good workman is to be chosen. [ John Ruskin ]

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [ Ovid ]

As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment. [ Proverb ]

For science is, like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. [ Chas. Kingsley ]

Virtue carries a reward with it; and so does vice with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. [ Bible ]

Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Such is the constitution of man that labor may be said to be its own reward. [ Dr. Johnson ]

All merit ceases the moment we perform an act for the sake of its consequences.
Truly, in this respect we have our reward. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Either virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise justly aims at honour and reward. [ Horace ]

Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. [ Quarles ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect, of a religious life. [ Addison ]

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. [ Izaak Walton ]

Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. [ Krishna ]

The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? [ Juvenal, Roman Poet ]

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. [ La Bruyere ]

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. [ Feltham ]

Women are the happiest beings of the creation: in compensation for our services they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half. [ De Varennes ]

Love is life's end - an end, but never ending.... Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. [ Spenser ]

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. [ S. T. Coleridge ]

Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. [ Goldsmith ]

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. [ Barrow ]

Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Child of earth and earthly sorrows - child of God and immortal hopes - arise from thy sadness, gird up the loins of thy mind, and with unfaltering energy press toward thy rest and reward on high. [ E. L. Magoon ]

The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death. [ Martial ]

No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity. That man is not tried, whether he be good or bad, and God never crowns those virtues which are only faculties and dispositions, but every act of virtue is an ingredient into reward - God so dresses us for heaven. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]