Quotes about Reciprocity

To a great extent the world is what we make it. We get back what we give. If we sow hate, we reap hate; if we scatter love and gentleness we harvest love and happiness. Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. The kind person bears with the infirmities of others, never magnifies trifles, and avoids a spirit of fault finding.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

You should never take more than you give.

Only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.