Reciprocity Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

“Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one”

“None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty”

“Take it and return it: the kiss of love.”

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

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”

“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.”

“He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.”

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

“Helping others is the way we help ourselves.”

“Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time”

“I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.”

“If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You give before you get.”

“The more we help others, the more we help ourselves”

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

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

“I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”

“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.”