Quotes about Reciprocity
The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That's rarely a fair trade.
— Jason Fried
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
— Albert Einstein
the eyes with which you will look back at God will be the same eyes with which God first looked at you.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.
— William Saroyan
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
— Cicero
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
— Ambrose of Milan
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
— Confucius
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
— Cicero
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
— Cicero
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
— Joseph Addison
The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.
— Richard Paul Evans