Reciprocity Quotes

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

You give before you get.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

Help another and you will be the one who benefits most

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

No man can help another without helping himself.

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Give and Take...For to the bee a flower is a fountain if lifeAnd to the flower a bee is a messenger of loveAnd to both, bee and flower,the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

To get what you want help others get what they want

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Behold me! I am worthyOf thy loving, for I love thee!