(1316 quotes found)
“Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me”
Walt Whitman
“O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”
William Shakespeare
“There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.”
Napoleon Hill
“Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?”
Epictetus
“We always return to our first loves.”
Native American Proverb
“A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.”
William Booth
“We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs.”
Brian Carter
“A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.”
Chinese Proverbs