Acceptable Quote by Bill Vaughan

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque…

— Tacitus

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are…

— Tacitus

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not…

— Seneca the Younger

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is…

— Aristotle

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Seneca the Younger

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

— Michael Josephson

The simple act of showing gratitude can take you a mere second. But for the receiver it can leave an indelible beauty mark on…

— Anonymous

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

— Roger Scruton