Marcus Aurelius Quotes

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

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 and it's nice to help someone.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I don't play for recognition.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

To set the cause above renown.