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Quotes About Reciprocity

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.
~ Jack London
What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.
~ Elizabeth Banks
You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.
~ Bill Maris
I'm big when it comes to respect. But it's a two-way street, in my eyes.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.
~ Victor Chang
What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.
~ Greg Laurie
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
~ Brian Tracy
When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In life, whatever you give to your society should be more than what you receive from it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Eso simplemente demuestra que usted puede abandonar a un superjefe, pero el superjefe nunca lo abandonará a usted.
~ Sydney Finkelstein
Somebody once said that good conversation should be like a tennis match, with each player gracefully sending the ball back across the net; instead, most conversation is like a golf game, with each player stroking only his own ball, and waiting impatiently for the other to finish.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
~ Sylvia Bremer
B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.
~ Sylvia Day
Although she had chosen presents with such care for her relations, Laura was surprised when counter presents arrived from them. She had not thought of them as remembering her. (77)
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Many people feed others who can't feed them, while they completely fail to nourish those who really desire to feed them.
~ T.D. Jakes
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
~ Tacitus
We return to you, O earth, the things which you have given us willingly and most graciously; with our hearts, hands and minds, in the best way we know how.
~ Taj Mahal
You saved my life. You must let me thank you with a gift." "I could just as well say you saved mine. Neither of us would have survived without the other." "Then you owe me a gift as well. I will give you Apple Valley. What will you give me?
~ Takashi Matsuoka
The pleasure you give is returned in the pleasure you receive.
~ Ted Chiang
There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
~ Bing Crosby
Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
~ William Shakespeare
Make my happiness--I will make yours.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre