Adam Grant Quotes

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

Any hand that I've shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I'm this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That's why I treat everybody with respect. I'm always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.