Quotes About Reciprocity

We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

When people come into our lives at just the right time to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.

Perhaps you met so that you could receive some information that will extend your journey here. And doesn't it follow that perhaps you have some information for him as well?

This isn't about her. This was never about her. This is about you and me." And he knew without a doubt that Sunny would be there for him if he were poor. She would give him her last dollar. She would take care of him. Not just physically, but emotionally. There weren't many things he was sure of, but he was sure of her.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

Existem pessoas que, quanto mais você faz por elas, menos elas fazem por si mesmas.

Seguramente si nuestro afecto es recíproco, nuestros corazones se entenderán. No somos un par de chiquillos para guardar una irritada reserva, ser mal dirigidos por la inadvertencia de algún momento o jugar como con un fantasma con nuestra propia felicidad.

There can hardly be a more unpleasant sensation than the having anything returned on our hands which we have given with a reasonable hope of its contributing to the comfort of a friend.

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit.

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

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Do unto others, then run.

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

Exchange is creation.

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.