Punishment Avoidance Quotes

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

The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

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.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.