Top 100 Quotes About Begets
#1. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#2. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
William Shakespeare
#4. Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Miguel De Unamuno
#5. Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.
Josh Garrels
#7. Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields
#8. Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.
George Fitzhugh
#9. The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?
Aesop
#12. Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.
Muhammad Yunus
#14. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
#16. Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
Lee Iacocca
#17. Power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.
Hannah Arendt
#18. Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.
Munshi Premchand
#19. Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
#20. Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.
P.T. Denys
#21. Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
Simon Sinek
#22. Sadly, there are many forces more powerful and devestating than love... Among them for example, the anger and jealousy of a spurned husband or lover. Fire begets passions, but it also burns.
Hub
#26. Obedience has a way of strengthening rather than depleting our resources. If we obey in one small corner, we will have power to obey elsewhere. Obedience begets obedience.
Richard J. Foster
#27. Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz
#28. You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.
Al Hirschfeld
#29. In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
Mas Oyama
#31. You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze.
Hilda Doolittle
#33. Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.
Camryn Manheim
#34. In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
James Hutton
#35. God moves the player, and he, the piece.
Which god behind God begets the plot
Of dust and time and dream and agonies.
Jorge Luis Borges
#36. Every evil begets some good.
Voltaire
#37. Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.
Joel Fuhrman
#38. The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#39. He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.
James Ellroy
#40. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Chaos begets chaos. Instability begets instability.
J.D. Vance
#44. Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on.
Karen Marie Moning
#45. Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
Alec Baldwin
#46. One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.
Robert Southey
#47. But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
Karl Marx
#50. Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding
#51. Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.
David Hume
#52. Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.
M. Scott Peck
#53. Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees ... Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
Margaret Sanger
#55. Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
Andre Suares
#56. Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
Emile M. Cioran
#57. Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
Petrarch
#58. 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 perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
#59. Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#60. Ungoverned anger begets madness.
Seneca.
#62. Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.
Cheryl Strayed
#63. Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.
Shirin Ebadi
#64. Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding
#66. The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#67. The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
Michel De Montaigne
#68. Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide
#69. Knowledge begets power. "Power begets force. "Force is applied from ignorance." With a smile of habit, I looked at the blond youth on the end. "Sergol? Would you finish it?" "Knowledge leads to ignorance.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#70. everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.
Julia Fierro
#71. War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
Walter Raleigh
#72. Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living?
Paul Auster
#73. But the fraud being once established, could not afterward be explained, for it is with a pious fraud as with a bad action, it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
Thomas Paine
#75. Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. I
Yaa Gyasi
#76. I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Being alone in body & spirit begets loneliness, and loneliness begets more loneliness.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#78. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#79. It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.
Miguel De Molinos
#80. Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
Victor J. Stenger
#81. Praise begets emulation,
a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.
Horace Mann
#82. They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
Kathi Appelt
#83. As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind ...
William Butler Yeats
#84. Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
A.J. Muste
#85. Movement begets movement, so just take the smallest first step.
Anonymous
#86. Is that what you think? Passion begets passion?" "Yes," she says. "It is. I think when you take steps to do what you want to do and be who you want to be, then the rest starts falling into place.
Aidan Donnelley Rowley
#87. War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
Judith Butler
#88. I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.
Joshua Radin
#89. To govern more securely some Princes have disarmed their subjects ... but by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either by doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#90. What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I
Pierce Brown
#91. Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
Bill Hybels
#92. Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
George Washington
#93. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.
Michel De Montaigne
#94. For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.
Sophocles
#95. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#96. 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.
#97. There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#98. There is a pattern repeated in Scripture: crazy miracles are the offspring of crazy faith. Normal begets normal. Crazy begets crazy. If we want to see God do crazy miracles, sometimes we need to pray crazy prayers.
Mark Batterson
#99. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
Leonard Ravenhill
#100. Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
John Lennon
