Quotes About Reciprocity

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

I think Wolves are getting the best out of me, and I'm giving Wolves my best football, but they are giving the best to me too.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go [...] If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change [...] Move on.

And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination : 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

Do nothing unto anyone that you would not like to have done unto yourself. Seek peace, and never be the aggressor—but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek.

Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.

And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.

Há fulanos que quando fazem algum favor a alguém estão logo prontos para lançar no livro de contas o agradecimento devido.

NOXIAE POENA PAR ESTO (let the punishment fit the crime).

This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's reactions, their emotions, their criticisms, their demands--but somehow they don't reciprocate. Maybe they can't. Maybe they lack the gift, if it is one.

He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings. as I am. I may have served his ends, but he served mine as well.

Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.