“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.” PeopleStatesGovernmentLawCoursesNationsPeaceNaturalEconomyDutyIndustryFairsPropertyRewardsLeavingIntelligenceImprovementPunishmentFollyDepartmentRulersCommodityStrictIdlenessMaintainingObservingMaintaining Peace Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.” MenActionThreeNaturalDutyBraveryRewardsPunishmentThree ThingsPromptsDischarge Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.” GoalNaturalWhiteDistanceRewardsMetaphorAssociationAnalogiesSymbolismPristineIrrepressibleAzaleas Author:Gao Xingjian
“Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.” MenEnjoyNaturalForgetSilenceHe ManExerciseRewardsNatural Gifts Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.” PeopleGivingEnergyNaturalPayDutyCommunicationShameGuiltRewardsPunishmentObligationNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg