Suzanne Collins Quotes

It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

From where I came from, the way I was raised, when somebody does something for you, you always want to give something back to them.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.