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Quotes About Reciprocity

But now I have a right to learn from you as you just learned from me.
~ Sophocles
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'
~ Tony Oller
An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
Does the person you're throwing those words at have as much strength to catch catch them as you did to throw them? Would you be able to get the pass back just a powerful?
~ Audrey Regan
In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.
~ John Mark Green
Honoring what you deserve is the beginning of living.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.
~ John Medina
One cannot affect another without being affected themselves. - Kathryn Ferentchak
~ John Meyer
Don't ask more of others than you can deliver yourself.
~ John Perry Barlow
Isnt it possible that wanting to be wanted Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or 'loved' Ã¢â'¬Â¦ could be as much an aspect of what you call 'love' as actually loving back?" I said. "I mean, in choosing someone to 'love' you—to be loved by—while that other person chooses you to 'love'—doesnt one complete the need of the other?
~ John Rechy
Involvement requires not only being able to give, but also being able to take from others--there must be [a] willingness to give the other [person] the pleasure of giving to you.
~ John Stewart
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
~ John Stuart Mill
But the true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they freely concede to every one else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one; and preferring, whenever possible, the society of those with whom leading and following can be alternate and reciprocal.
~ John Stuart Mill
Everyone who receives protection from the society owes a return for the benefit.
~ John Stuart Mill
La diferencia puede atraer, pero lo que retiene es la semejanza; y los individuos pueden darse recíprocamente felicidad según sean más o menos semejantes entre sí.
~ John Stuart Mill
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." - J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel
~ John Wayne
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
~ John Wayne The Shootist
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
~ John Wooden
Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.
~ John Wyndham
Oh, no, that would have been rude. I don't believe in that sort of tit for tat, do you? People are too self-centeredly unkind to one another as it is.
~ Ellery Queen
You should never take more than you give
~ Elton John
only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.
~ Elton John
In every case we receive only in proportion to what we give.
~ balzac honore de xxiv