Quotes About Punishing Yourself

#1. Punishing yourself for a mistake is making another mistake. Correction comes from caring, not from guilt.

Karlyle Tomms

#2. You are only punishing yourself when you want to be in a relationship with a woman more than she wants to be a in a relationship with you.

David Deida

#3. Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

Cassandra Clare

#4. When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.

Bryant McGill

#5. And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Alan Cohen

#7. Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

Louise Hay

#8. Stop punishing yourself if you scared of your memories with me. Don't do that ... Just stab me like this not you. It is only when you can stand on your feet that I can disappear with easy from your sight.

Ma-Roo

#9. Just like you can't punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can't love anyone without loving yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

Louise Hay

#11. Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is hope. It is important for you to value who you are by the grace of God. Now, get set to improve that value!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.

Suzanne Selfors

#13. Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?"
"Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!

Lauren Myracle

#14. Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Napoleon Hill

#15. It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better." "Hurting

Zoe Marriott

#16. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

#17. You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Eoin Colfer

#18. Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Frederic Bastiat

#19. Flo kept reminding me that they gave us an opportunity to teach, though each one was also punishing to the soul.

Gloria Steinem

#20. When Ragnuk killed you, I looked for you everywhere. But you didn't come back. For decades I looked for you, terrified the angels were punishing me for letting you die alone. I thought that you'd never come back to me
that I'd lost you forever.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#21. Mirrors did not lie. They could boost an ego, but they could just as easily be cruel and punishing.

Belle Aurora

#22. Motivation 2.0 is similar. At its heart are two elegant and simple ideas: Rewarding an activity will get you more of it. Punishing an activity will get you less of it.

Daniel H. Pink

#23. If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

Fred Thompson

#24. No," I said. "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.

Agatha Christie

#25. Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

Arthur Miller

#26. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.

Nicole Green

#27. Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Barbara Deming

#28. Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

John Yoo

#29. You wanted a more interesting world ... Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned ... Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

Warren Ellis

#30. So many times you will see people wringing their hands and saying 'I want to know what my mission in life is,' all the while they are cutting people off on the highway, refusing to give time to people, punishing their mate for having hurt their feelings or lying about what they did.

Richard N. Bolles

#31. The biggest mistake in puppy training, which is also the most common one, is punishing the dog for bad behavior.

Vivaco Books

#32. Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

Margaret Fuller

#33. When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Austin Grossman

#34. A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

Anthony Trollope

#35. Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

L. Neil Smith

#36. You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

Charles Duhigg

#37. I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Anthony Hopkins

#38. He shook his head. No games, Serena. That isn't what this is about. If you want games of cat and mouse, disobedient slave to punishing master, you're better off with someone else. As much as this is a fantasy and not your reality, in the time you're with me, it will be real. In all ways.

Maya Banks

#39. Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Margo Jefferson

#40. Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Tamsin Egerton

#41. Ha-shem to do His dirty work, namely, punishing sin. It can be read that Mastema, not Adonai,

J.A. Konrath

#42. One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Theodore Bikel

#43. The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.

Dada Bhagwan

#44. But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Plato

#45. Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.

Richard Dawkins

#46. I have empathy towards bullying. Not about punishing the bully but empowering the victim. We have a tendency to use the word "bully" and other words in the wrong situations, thus desensitizing and lessening the impact of the true situation.

Renee Lawless

#47. If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or castrating us, then you are a fool for thinking that way. That only makes bad matters worse.

Carl Panzram

#48. Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#49. Punishing potty errors after they've happened is perhaps the most common training mistake; it only aggravates the problem. Going

Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz

#50. When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

Ibi Kaslik

#51. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

Coretta Scott King

#52. there is no glory in punishing

Michel Foucault

#53. By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Tacitus

#54. God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

Fred Phelps

#55. If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong.

Nigel Lawson

#56. I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

Jesse Eisenberg

#57. In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

Jim Costa

#58. People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

James Inhofe

#59. Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.

Stanley Greenspan

#60. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

Ben Mendelsohn

#61. Look at me and don't stop." He tightened his hands under my ass cheeks and started pumping into me. Hard. Deep. Punishing really but I didn't care. I wanted this from him as I stared into eyes burning blue fire at me. "Ethan!

Raine Miller

#62. Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

Tim Jackson

#63. Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Nick Rahall

#64. But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you
knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

Ayn Rand

#65. For our law has in it a turn of humour or touch of fancy which Nero and Herod never happened to think of; that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home.

G.K. Chesterton

#66. Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Saint Augustine