Suze Orman Quotes

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

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

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

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

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

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 love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

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

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.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

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.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.