Reciprocal Behavior Quotes

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

… with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

I do know how to treat people and that is treat them the way I want to be treated. So when I extend that respect and that consideration that I would like to have, there is a certain amount of reciprocating. Some of the senators have even said words to the effect to me of "I can't dislike you as much as I wish that I did".

As long as you respect me, I'm a respect you.

If Master P ever hollered at me, I'd holla at him.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.

We should be tolerant to people who are tolerant to us. We should be intolerant to people who are intolerant to us.

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

Character calls forth character.

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.

You treat anyone normally, and they'll treat you normally back.