Welcome to our collection of return quotes! Returns are an inevitable part of life, whether they pertain to products, relationships, or experiences. They symbolize the cyclical nature of existence, where endings often pave the way for new beginnings. Throughout history, writers, philosophers, and thinkers have pondered the significance of returns, offering profound insights into the human condition and the way we navigate through life’s twists and turns.
In this curated selection of return quotes, you’ll find wisdom that resonates across cultures and generations. From profound reflections on the journey of self-discovery to poignant observations about the ebb and flow of time, these quotes capture the essence of what it means to embrace the concept of return. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, solace, or simply a moment of contemplation, we invite you to explore these words and ponder their meaning in your own life. So, dive in and discover the beauty and complexity of returns.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. Robert M. Pirsig
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. Robert E. Lee
The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution. Masayoshi Son
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. Mignon McLaughlin
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. Charles Lindbergh
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned. Allu Arjun
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband’s house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. Germaine Greer
To move forward, you have to return home. Rita Marley
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position. Billy Corgan
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. Emo Philips
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. Matt Blunt
Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you. Wayne Dyer
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. George Orwell
As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Gene Cernan
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. George Matthew Adams
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson
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
The nice girl thinks she’s giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she’s depleted. Sherry Argov
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. Florence Scovel Shinn
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou
I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return. Yo-Yo Ma
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. Peace Pilgrim
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. William Shakespeare
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love. Sadhu Vaswani
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they’re going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home. Aleksandar Hemon
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. Jacob Bronowski
It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear – return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first. Guion Bluford
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid. Ivor Novello
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Return to your friends and tell them that we came here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, and determined to avenge our own wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard. William Wallace
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment… only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. Edward Weston
This question: ‘How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?’ has been with me ever since I was a child. Scilla Elworthy
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy. Brad Henry
Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar. Edward H. Harriman
So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary – films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth. Tom Shales
Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose. Howard Jacobson
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. Kim Il-sung
It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. John Major
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. Khalil Gibran
Nobody’s ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren’t expecting some return on their dough. Johnny Depp
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. Hermann Hesse
The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred de Musset
There is no such thing as guaranteed high investment returns. Be wary of anyone who promises that you will receive a high rate of return on your investment with little or no risk. Perianne Boring
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude. Benjamin Franklin
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. Arthur Miller
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. Linda McCartney
If they wanted to end the violence and war between them and if they wanted Jews and Palestinians to live in peace, Jews and Palestinians, then they should consider this solution: one democratic state, free from weapons of mass destruction, and with the return of the Palestinian refugees. Muammar al-Gaddafi
War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind. Dan Lipinski
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return. Frank Rich
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences – they mourned the death of my wife with me – but we were hopeful that the children would return. Otto Frank
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him. Saint Teresa of Avila
The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face – and make sense of – their own existence. Paul Kalanithi
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind. Gene Cernan
I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that. Allan Hamilton
I’m no hero. Heroes don’t come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I’m a hero, I’m not. Bob Feller
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them. Henry Hudson
Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return. Marilyn Manson
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you. Andy Rooney
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Jim Rohn
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. Christopher McCandless
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac. George B. McClellan
Time is flying never to return. Virgil
I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful. Nicolas Cage
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving – and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it – and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return. Robert Collier
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’. Sydney J. Harris
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. Francesco Guicciardini
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking. Phaedrus
I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise. Tom Felton
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen Hawking
Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home? Alexander the Great
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. Deng Xiaoping
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. Calvin Coolidge
When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives. Kay Redfield Jamison
When memories fade, can one ever really return home? Floyd Skloot
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate. H. P. Lovecraft
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. Jim Carrey
Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it. John C. Bogle
Human life moves only in one direction – toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren’t as bad as they’ve become for you. Thomas Ligotti
Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn’t end. Uzodinma Iweala
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. W. H. Auden
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. George Bernard Shaw
You don’t see any borders between countries from space. That’s man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth. Sunita Williams
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Charlie Chaplin
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face. Xi Jinping
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. Anne Frank
Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you’re in emotional debt, you’re pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered. David Viscott
All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don’t do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn’t enough to make our lives have a meaning. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England! Neil Sedaka
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. Gore Vidal
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Leo Buscaglia
