Demosthenes Quotes

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

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

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

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

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

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?'

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.

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

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

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

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.

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

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

Forget favors given; remember those received.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

I get excited about people doing stuff, and to whom I want to give. And I believe in giving back to people who have helped me and my family in the past. The key is getting excited.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

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

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.