Ashamed Quote by Seneca the Younger

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a…

— Eric Hoffer

“Giving people favors is a time-honored way of gaining loyalty. Pharmaceutical reps do it. The salespeople manning cosmetic counters do it. Lobbyists do it.…

— Dan Ariely

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

— Aristotle

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not…

— Aristotle

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

— Donna Leon

“Doing favors,” Leyers said. “They help wondrously over the course of a lifetime. When you have done men favors, when you look out for…

— Mark T. Sullivan

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

— Gautama Buddha

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man…

— Demosthenes

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

— Samuel Johnson