Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.

One good turn deserves another.

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

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.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive 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.

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

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

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

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

No one wearies of benefits received.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.