In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked. "He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh." "Of course," I said. "Silly me. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be… — Mike Sager Copy Share Image
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image