Do you agree or disagree that virtue is its own reward?

Question

Doing good deeds, helping mankind in general etc. and giving your leisure time to help the needy, gratis.

Answer 1

Helping a single person isn't rewarding enough.  But helping them to help others is a reward, because you've helped a lot of people out that way.  And helping people to help others is what makes the world better.  And that is the reward.

Answer 2

"The Path of Virtue," Jonathan Murro,

"When Invisible Children Sing," Dr. Huang,

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D.,

"Hope Rising," Kim Meeder, and

"Hope for the World:  Spiritual Galvanoplasty," O. M. Aivanhov, are good.

Answer 3

I tend to agree.  If it's all about approval though, doing it because you think your mother, other people, or God will be happy with you, you're bound to be dissappointed.  Existing for other's approval is always a loosing game.

But I believe that the quality of our relationships with others is the source of our greatest happiness or our greatest pain in life.  And I think most virtues align with building relationships, generating trust and goodwill between people.  So I think that in general, virtue will bring reward.

Answer 4

Undoubtedly true altruism virtue always finds its own reward, bright lights don’t under bushels burn and shed their light for long. Goodness, morality, honour, fidelity to a cause are rarities since time eternal.  

Virtue is its own reward, and smiling faces bring their humour and wit by bringing happiness to others whilst lightening their loads and generally caring about others. And enjoying doing so, is a double reward.

Answer 5

Agree..... virtue is the greatest booster of self-esteem along with self-satisfaction, and that is the highest reward we can ever ask for.

Answer 6

I agree that virtue is its own reward. As a quality in human nature virtue itself in its existence serves as an armour of protection to a human soul. A treasure that places its own reward to a soul who truly deserve it so. As nothing else more valuable can fill the life of a person fulfilled with the graces of his own virtues.

Answer 7

Agree