Repaying Quotes

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  John Bunyan

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

  Boris Spassky

  Trying, Debt, Chess

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• Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Kindness, Grateful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 336-37, De Beneficiis, II. 25, 1922.

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• And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.

  Bear Grylls

  Heart, Law, Giving

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2015

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• The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the Golden Rule – the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.

  Isadore Sharp

  Success, Time, Attitude

  "CEOs onPeople - In Conversation With Isadore Sharp, Founder and Chairman, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts". Lee Hecht Harrison Interview, onpeople.lhh.com.

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• No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

  Sulla

  Thankful, Revenge, Enemy

  Epitaph he made for himself. "Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age". Book by Will Durant, 2001.

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Upset, Favors

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Business, Design

  Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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• To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

  Pope Francis

  World, Changing The World, Be Good

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. October 18, 2014.

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• The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kings

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• What goes around, comes around.

  Willie Nelson

  Karma, Respect, Revenge

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin

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• Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

  Chuck Grassley

  People, Debt, Picks

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• In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

  Gilles Gratton

  Biblical, Hockey, People

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• I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Football, Blessed, Home

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• The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Thank God, Debt

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• Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

  Michael N. Castle

  Sacrifice, Trying, Debt

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• Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.

  Freya Stark

  Views, Personality, Mountain

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Pleasure

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• Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

  L. M. Boyd

  Thinking, Years, London

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