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Quotes About Reciprocity

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.
~ Alice Hoffman
What gifts you had, you were meant to share. What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.
~ Alice Hoffman
Remember one thing," Hannah told Maria. "Always love someone who will love you back.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.
~ Alice Hoffman
Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.
~ Alice Hoffman
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Yeah? I say. Yeah, she say. It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.
~ Alice Walker
You treat folk the way you'd want to be treated, and you can't go far wrong. That's what my father told me. Forgot that advice, for a long time, and I done things I can never make up for. Still, it doesn't hurt to try. My experience? You get what you give, in the end.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Hay que dar a los demás el mismo trato que uno querría recibir,
~ Joe Abercrombie
What we do unto others, we do unto ourselves.
~ Joe Dispenza
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.
~ Nelson Mandela
It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.
~ Dolly Parton
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
~ Bill Vaughan
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The first fundamental principle of effective classroom feedback is that feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor.
~ Dylan Wiliam
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
~ E.W. Howe
Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper, in turn, himself. Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law.
~ Earl Nightingale
In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return.
~ Earl Nightingale
If he wants more, he must be of more service to those from whom he receives his return.
~ Earl Nightingale
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
~ Edgar A. Guest
La idea de ganarse la confianza ajena sin dar a cambio la suya le parecía el colmo de la sabiduría.
~ Eduardo Mendoza