Seneca the Younger Quotes

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

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.

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.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

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

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

Chelsea gave me everything that I needed, and now I have time to give back all that Chelsea give me.

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

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.