Begets Quotes
164 quotes by 137 authors
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers takes place, and…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
— Simon Sinek
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Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.
— Robert Crumb
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.
— Joel Fuhrman
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At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one;…
— David Saperstein
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Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
— R. Scott Bakker
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Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter…
— Reese Witherspoon
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Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
— Cynthia Ozick
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It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
— Aristotle
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Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
— Margaret Sanger
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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff…
— Robertson Davies
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Literature usually begets literature.
— Susan Sontag
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
— Victoria Moran
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Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
— Meshell Ndegeocello
Who Wrote These Begets Quotes
137 authors contributed a total of 164 Begets Quotes, led by these top contributors: