Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

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

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.

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!

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

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

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

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

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.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

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.

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

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

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

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!

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

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

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.

No one wearies of benefits received.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.