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Quotes About Reciprocity

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.
~ Guy Browning
The upside of paying it forward far outweighs the downside of being exploited.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Resharing is caring!
~ Guy Kawasaki
The point is, Harry, if I'm not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side.
~ Hanif Kureishi
There are those rare moments in life- when you feel that jolt and it feels great and it hurts like hell, but you're feeling, really feeling and suddenly colors seem brighter and sounds have more clarity and foods taste better and you never, not even for a minute, stop thinking about him and you know, just know that he is feeling exactly the same way about you
~ Harlan Coben
The Boomerangs' motto was an obvious one: Karma is like a boomerang—whatever you give out will come back to you.
~ Harlan Coben
Everything you touch touches you.
~ Jidenna
Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.
~ Mark Feuerstein
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
~ Vera Nazarian
Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.
~ Tim Brown
America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.
~ Ted Cruz
Be a reflection of what you want to receive. TRUST is the beginning of CONNECTION
~ Karen Gibbs
I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.
~ Ann Aguirre, Horde
Let's replace "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" with "Do unto others, after they show you they are worthy.
~ Sherry Argov
Whenever a woman requires too many things from a man, he'll resent it. Let him give what he wants to give freely; then observe who he is.
~ Sherry Argov
If you are nice, but you give of yourself with strings attached, the demand for reciprocity will send him several steps backward.
~ Sherry Argov
In a relationship of any kind, if one person feels the other person isn't bringing anything to the table, he or she will begin to disrespect that person.
~ Sherry Argov
When you treat your time together as something he has to do, you've taken something that was a pleasure and made it a chore. If you are nice, but you give of yourself with strings attached, the demand for reciprocity will send him several steps backward. Whenever you make him feel as though he has to see you, it will feel like work. When it's not an obligation to see you, the very same thing will feel like pleasure.
~ Sherry Argov
Herodotus is said to have remarked, 'Every year we send ships at great cost and danger as far as Africa, to ask "Who are you? What are your laws? What is your language?"' Why is it, he asked, 'they never send ships to ask us'?
~ Simon Jenkins
Revenge is simply justice with teeth.
~ Simon R. Green
Retribution
~ Simon Wood
Una società coesa non può durare se gli uomini sono occupati a deridersi a vicenda e a manifestarsi continuamente reciproco disprezzo
~ Simonetta Agnello Hornby
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
~ Plato
I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.
~ Hugh Dancy