Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

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.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

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

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.

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

When people treat you well, you just want to transfer it back over.

It's easy to give back to people who are so genuine and kind.

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.

You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

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

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

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