Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

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

I've taken fights on short notice while injured to help save shows, and in return I've been taken care of.

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

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.

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.

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

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.

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

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.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you'll be there to take theirs?

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

We must support our supporters.

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.