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Punishment Quotes

I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Punishment.

For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

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Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire

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

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

 

It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead

Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda


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