L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

I need them as much as they need me.

I hope I use them more than they use me.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

International negotiation has a nasty tendency to remind its practitioners that the laws of gravity affect them, too, and that international life is a two-way street in which one may have to give in order to get.

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

Integration is a give and take.

Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

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

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.