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Quotes About Reciprocity

Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.
~ Unknown
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
~ Thucydides
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
~ Socrates
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
~ Louise Brown
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
~ Frans de Waal
Whatever I have given, I have gained.
~ Leonard Nimoy
What you give, you become.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone.
~ Charlotte Erickson
AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.
~ C.L. Stone, Drop of Doubt
Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.
~ Terraine Francois
The limitations of literalness and an excessive reliance upon reciprocity as a principle for constructing an ultimate environment can result either in an overcontrolling, stilted perfectionism or "works righteousness" or in their opposite, an abasing sense of badness embraced because of mistreatment, neglect or the apparent disfavor of significant others.
~ James W. Fowler
One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.''-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup
~ Jamie Malanowski
I give without loss as I buy without gain.
~ Jamie O'Neill
We can always take but never give.
~ Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity
mutuality, brother. You scratch my back, and I will scratch yours.
~ Jan Guillou
The one who Not can Give also will never Receive. Jan Jansen
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Kindness is the beaded belt that binds all together. Expect kindness. Whatever you give out will be returned
~ Jane Kirkpatrick
Exist? o limit? pân? la care un om poate oferi, f?r? s? primeasc? niciodat?, nimic în schimb.
~ Janet Geringer Woititz
God does not demand anything of us that God has not already done. In fact, God does not just ask us to do what God has done; God enables us to take that step.
~ Jason Byassee