Confucius Quotes

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

I need them as much as they need me.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

I've always tried to balance my life with what is good for me but also keeping in mind how it affects somebody else.

Integration is a give and take.

Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

It was a mutual relationship.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.