90 Reciprocate Quotes

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Famous Reciprocate Quotes

A little reciprocity goes a long way. — Malcolm Forbes

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life. — Jonathan Haidt

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity. — Pearl S. Buck

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity. — Confucius

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

If somebody trusts me, then I will reciprocate. - Velupillai Prabhakaran

If somebody trusts me, then I will reciprocate. — Velupillai Prabhakaran

Reciprocity is a natural human dynamic that exists in us because we’re humans. Some people are very guarded about it, so we have to be careful about how we trigger it. If we ask, we tend to owe. — Chris Voss

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. - Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. — Confucius

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. — Matthew McConaughey

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. — Benjamin Franklin

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you. — Carroll Quigley

The idea of life is to give and receive. — Dizzy Gillespie

To obtain something, something of equal value must be given. — Hiromu Arakawa

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you — John Greenleaf Whittier

Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. — American Proverbs

Short Reciprocate Quotes

  • Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. — Washington Irving
  • One hand washes the other and together they wash the face. — Turkish Proverbs
  • If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. — English Proverbs
  • One hand washes the other and both wash the face — Greek Proverbs
  • No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity. — Neal A. Maxwell
  • Receive a plum, return a peach. — Vietnamese Proverbs
  • You cannot ask anyone for things you don’t already give them. — Alex Hormozi
  • Understand the boat and the boat will understand you. — Scottish Proverbs
  • That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others. — Umar
  • I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. — Sean Penn

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Reciprocate Feelings Quotes

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. — Carter Heyward

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. — Lord Chesterfield

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. — Ben Elton

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. — Margaret J. Wheatley

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity. — Richard Carlson

If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate. — Price Pritchett

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation. — Julian Baggini

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel. — Lord Chesterfield

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings. — Stefan Zweig

I would never have gotten married if it weren't for him. You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess. — Anne Hathaway

Reciprocity Quotes

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. — Pauli Murray

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. — Bertrand Russell

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites. — Piet Mondrian

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. — Nicolas Malebranche

TRUE WEALTH - Worriless sleeping, Clear conscience, Reciprocal gratitude, Absence of envy, Muscle strength, Frequent laughs, No meals alone, No gym classes, Good digestive functions, No meeting rooms, Periodic surprises, Foamy coffee, Crusty bread, Ability to nap, Access to a hammock — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving — Paul David Tripp

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. — Voltaire

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe. — Simone de Beauvoir

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. — Bryan Stevenson

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More Reciprocate Quotes

Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature. — Joanna Macy

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes. — George Washington

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. — Pope John Paul II

Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball. — Marv Dunphy

The more you give, the more you receive. — Romanian Proverbs

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. — Louis K. Anspacher

We cannot expect anything from the world that we are not willing to expect from ourselves. — Mahatria Ra

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals. — Robert D. Putnam

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go. If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change. Move on. — RuPaul

Hand washes hand, leg supports leg. — Polish Proverbs

The gift expects another gift in return. — Icelandic Proverbs

One thing I've always struggled with in life is loving people too much. It's painful when that love is not reciprocated. But one thing I always comfort myself with is the fact that Allah will always show greater love to those who love Him. Allah doesn't disappoint you so keep your heart attached to Him. — Omar Suleiman

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal. — Robert M. Sapolsky

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit. — Carl von Clausewitz

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. — J. D. Salinger

Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity. — Mary Faustina Kowalska

A happy love needs to be reciprocated. — Vladimir Putin

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity. — Sandra Ingerman

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. — Confucius

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