Begets Quotations

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

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.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out. When you consciously open, read, and file away your bills and statements, you are connecting with your money and taking control of your life.

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.

If others must serve you, serve them first; love begets love; trust engenders trust.

What we've learned is graffiti ... begets more graffiti,

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

I think work begets work.

Energy begets energy.

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

People don't want to lose any more money, and selling begets selling, ... No one is giving any good guidance and it's a complete selling fest.

Once the stocks do start to go (higher), a lot of people are going to feel like they missed the boat and be forced to scramble after some of these names. And that's what begets rallies.

The addition of specialists and adding to the overall staff of the hospital, that's important. And it speaks well of the community as a place that is attractive to those kinds of people in that profession. Once you have those kinds of people, then you have people who come in to use those professionals. So it's kind of a circle, and growth begets growth.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternative lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Reading begets reading.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Literature usually begets literature.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

... only love begets love.

Change begets change.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Remorse begets reform.