Quotes About Reciprocity

When you wish # good for others, good things come back to you.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.

The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Why eye for an eye, when we can have smile for a smile ?

To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.

Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.

It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them, but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.