Requite Quotes

#1. Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Joseph Hall

#2. Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Tacitus

#3. There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

John Dryden

#5. Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Thomas Fuller

#6. It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

Tacitus

#7. It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

Edward Abbey

#8. Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

Huston Smith

#9. You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Seneca The Younger

#10. Take you example by this thing,/ And yield to each his right,/ Lest God with such like miserye/ Your wicked minds requite

Various

#11. Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Requite injury with kindness.

Laozi

#14. We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
And rather be angry than put to shame. And if you are cursed, I do not like that you want to bless. Rather join a little in the cursing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#17. The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates

#19. Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

Alistair Cooke

#20. As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

Suge Knight

#21. Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

Evan Osnos

#22. The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

Rachel Cusk

#23. Plan, prepare and grow. Repeat.

Kiersten Kindred

#24. A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

William Lyon Phelps

#25. When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.

Steve Alford

#26. I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

Drake

#27. Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.

John Marsden

#28. Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

Colson Whitehead

#29. Our friendship is a nebula.

Robin Sloan

#30. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

Lisa Unger

#31. Never say never. You never know when never may come.

T.A. Uner

#32. Hear Everything and judge for yourself

George Eliot