Woody Hayes Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

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.

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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

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.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

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

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

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.

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

Forget favors given; remember those received.