Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Voltaire

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

Samuel Johnson

Virtue is too often merely local.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Henry Bolingbroke

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Winston Churchill

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Mike Ruddock

I'm gutted he's out for the Six Nations but more gutted for Kevin.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Lionel Jospin

I remain attached to my nation.

Lord Byron

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

John Schafer

It really is kind of a little United Nations here.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.