These people…flatter others to get favors in return. JUDE…

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so;…

— Wallace D. Wattles

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

— Archibald Cox

God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His…

— Arthur W. Pink

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have…

— John Quincy Adams

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

— Jonathan Swift

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

— William Hazlitt

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

— Ayn Rand

It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before,…

— Paulo Coelho

True friends don't count favors.

— Anonymous

It favors the pain, that would leave me alone / or had the luck of the plot, in this wide world would have us

— Mak_786

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your…

— Jeffrey Gitomer

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton