Quotes About Reward And Punishment

#1. The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

Kumail Nanjiani

#2. What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F

George Lakoff

#3. I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

John Shelby Spong

#4. Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

Christie Golden

#5. The science shows that the secret to high performance isn't our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive - our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to make a contribution.

Daniel H. Pink

#6. When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

Imran Khan

#7. The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

John Shelby Spong

#8. In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

Israel Shenker

#9. My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

Albert Einstein

#10. Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

Penn Jillette

#11. Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

John Locke

#12. Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment. ...

Emma Goldman

#13. When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#14. I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

Jose Rizal

#15. Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Comte De Lautreamont

#16. When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

Lisa Unger

#17. Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Anita Shreve

#18. (If the expected does not occur - in event, reward, or punishment - the work may seem lacking in artistic unity, coherence, and integrity and can sorely surprise or disappoint the audience.)

Paula LaRocque

#19. Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#20. It's seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days ... " he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. " ... at least until I found you.

Meg Cabot

#21. One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

Gay Hendricks

#22. Goodness than depends on fear of hell or fear of the policeman or fear of punishment is not goodness at all - it is simply cowardice. Goodness than depends on hope of reward or hope of praise or hope of heaven depends on bribery.

A.S. Neill

#23. I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.

Seanan McGuire

#24. there is no such thing as chance. All is either a trial, or a punishment, or a reward, or a foresight. Remember the fisherman, who thought himself the most wretched of mankind. Oromazes sent thee to change his fate. Cease then, frail mortal, to dispute against what thou oughtest to adore." "But,

Voltaire

#25. All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

James Buchanan

#26. How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

Benjamin Franklin

#27. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.

Craig Thompson

#28. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#29. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

#30. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.

Megan Marshall

#31. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#32. Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

Jorge Luis Borges

#33. Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

George Washington

#34. With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

Maria Montessori

#35. Most of our decision making was shaped by somatic states related to punishment and reward. But

Antonio R. Damasio

#36. Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.

Peter James West

#37. This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Joseph Lancaster

#38. Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Penn Jillette

#39. Punishment and reward are usually enough motivation to make us move forward.

Ben Tolosa

#40. I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary.

Clement Of Alexandria

#41. Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward.

Pema Chodron

#42. Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Mabel Collins

#43. I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Mary Doria Russell

#44. This city is reward for all it will enable you to achieve and punishment for all the crimes it will force you to commit.

Colson Whitehead

#45. To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Ernest Holmes

#46. It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#47. Service without reward is punishment.

George Herbert

#48. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Richard Dawkins

#49. The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.

Caitlin Doughty

#50. Ah, you may tell the girls that they must now get their turn. My punishment was to last till I was thought worthy of a reward for the way I done my duty. You'll see me no more.

W.B.Yeats

#51. The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#52. Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand

#53. No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

Maria Montessori

#54. I'm rewarded, uh, I mean punished, with a slap to my backside.

H.M. Ward

#55. Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Ayn Rand

#56. Weigh the reward of the mitzva against the pleasure of the sin, and also weigh the pleasure of the sin against the punishment it will inevitably bring. Are we getting a good deal by opting for sin? Clearly, we are not.

Yaakov Hillel

#57. Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Auliq Ice

#58. With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.
'Well done, Megan, you took your punishment well. Now it's time for your reward.

Felicity Brandon

#59. A pen is neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it that makes it a weapon of war or a tool of peace.
Likewise, love is neither good nor bad. It's what you do with it that makes it the ultimate punishment or the greatest reward.

Lilly Mance

#60. Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

Ernestine Rose

#61. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Sarah Lewis

#62. Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. Inspiration

Pema Chodron

#63. The pleasure of praise and reward must energize, the pain of blame and punishment. must teach, else teacher and society have misused these social tools.

Abraham Myerson

#64. To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Ramakrishna

#65. If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.

Swami Vivekananda

#66. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Laird Barron

#67. It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.

Maimonides

#68. Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward
or, punishment.

George Eliot

#69. We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

Bertrand Russell

#70. I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Harriet Martineau

#71. There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

John Moulder Wilson

#72. Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty - her pain, my suffering - her relief, my hope - her anger, my punishment - her regard, my reward.

Charlotte Bronte

#73. Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

John Brown

#74. Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#75. If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

Penn Jillette

#76. A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one.

Junayd

#77. Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

Drew Carey

#78. soul is taken as a subject matter to receive in the future life the reward or the punishment from God for our actions in this life; but the very idea of eternal punishment is inconsistent with the boundless love of God.

Kaiten Nukariya

#79. You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Brian Eno

#80. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#81. for every 'If you do,' there's an 'If you don't,' a threat of punishment for every promise of reward.

William McDavid

#82. The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.

Marianne Williamson

#83. The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

Nassau William Senior