Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you." "Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

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

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

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.

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.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

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

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.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

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.

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

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

You save my face this afternoon and I’ll save your face tomorrow.

We must support our supporters.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.