Quotes about Reciprocity

Human beings tend to much more quickly forget the good others have done for them than the bad others have done to them. That's human nature.

Some sacrificial souls delight in sacrificing themselves, but refuse reciprocal gestures. They do not want to feel obligated to those they are serving. But real leadership recognizes the value of the gestures of others. To neglect receiving kindness and help is to isolate oneself, to rob others of opportunity, and to deprive oneself of sustenance.

A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;

THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

If you will first help people get what they want, they will help you get what you want.

ASK NO MORE OF OTHERS THAN YOU ARE ASKING OF YOURSELF.

Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.17

And remember, it is with the attitude with which you judge others that you will also be judged. If you mine the gold of good intentions in your relationship with others, then people will more likely do the same for you.

if you want people to act right toward you, you act right toward them. And many times you'll change them.

God always gives back to us when we give to Him. He does not promise to give back in kind... But God always gives back in some way. You cannot out-give God.

People are most likely to help us after we have helped them in some way.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.