Hassan II of Morocco quotes

“I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.”
-- Hassan II of Morocco

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“The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.”
-- Hassan II of Morocco

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“Humility is not weakness, but strength under control”

“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”

“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

“It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.”

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

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.”

“Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.”

“Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.”

“I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.”

“You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.”