Acknowledge Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

— Benjamin Franklin

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or…

— Joel Osteen

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a…

— Samuel Johnson

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that…

— Heloise

“Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide generous givers…

— Christian Smith

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

— Rainis

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you…

— Anonymous

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

— Tahir Shah

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying…

— Hanif Kureishi

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

— Anonymous