Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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.

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

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

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

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

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.

I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

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

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

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

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.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

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.

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

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

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

One good turn deserves another.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.