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- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. ~ William James
- All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. ~ Alfred Douglas
- All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. ~ Albert Einstein
- God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also. ~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ~ Alex Haley
- It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ~ Winston Churchill
- It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future. ~ Midge Costanza
- Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. ~ Alan Dershowitz
- Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. ~ Jacques Ellul
- One can’t deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we’ve created and the people with whom we have been linked. It’s all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain. ~ Graham Nash
- One does not substitute oneself for the past; one merely adds to it a new link. ~ Paul Cezanne
- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal. ~ John F. Kennedy
- Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, leading by reason and a gift of cooperation. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
- Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. ~ Franz Kafka
- The Holy Spirit alone can do this; the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one’s neighbor. ~ Jacques Ellul
- The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. ~ John Maynard Keynes
- The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. ~ Silvio Berlusconi
- The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. ~ Irving Fisher
- The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. ~ Anthony Robbins
- The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ~ Stanislaw J. Lec
- To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. ~ Marcel Marceau
- We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions. ~ Robert L. Payton
- What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. ~ Eduardo Chillida
- When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power. ~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
- You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ~ Deepak Chopra
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- A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. ~ Romanian Proverb
- Advertising is the mother of trade. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Anger is the mother of treachery. ~ Welsh Proverb
- Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury. ~ Russian Proverb
- Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention. ~ Author Unknown
- Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. ~ Edmund Burke
- Education is the mother of leadership. ~ Wendell L. Willkie
- Experience is the mother of wisdom. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Fear is the mother of morality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Haste is the mother of imperfection. ~ Brazilian Proverb
- Haste is the mother of inaccuracy. ~ Native American Proverb
- Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. ~ Samuel Smiles
- Hypocrisy is the mother of peace. ~ Moorish Proverb
- If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ~ David Rockefeller
- If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
- Ignorance is the mother of admiration. ~ George Chapman
- Ingratitude is the mother of every vice. ~ French Proverb
- Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ~ Karl Kraus
- Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. ~ Thomas Hobbes
- Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ~ Aeschylus
- Mistrust is the mother of certainty. ~ French Proverb
- Necessity is the mother of attraction. ~ Luke McKissack
- Necessity is the mother of invention. ~ English Proverb
- Necessity is the mother of taking chances. ~ Mark Twain
- Night is the mother of advice. ~ Corsican Proverb
- Night is the mother of counsels. ~ George Herbert
- Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. ~ Bantu Proverb
- Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ~ Josh Billings
- Repetition is the mother of knowledge. ~ African Proverb
- Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ Francesco Petrarch
- Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~ Traditional Proverb
- There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world. ~ George Gardner
- Trust is the mother of exasperation. ~ French Proverb
- Want is the mother of industry. ~ Traditional Proverb
- When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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- A good dog deserves a good bone. ~ Traditional Proverb
- A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. ~ Barbara De Angelis
- Children need love, especially when they don’t deserve it. ~ Harold Hulbert
- Chins without beards deserve no honor. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~ Aristotle
- Earth belongs to the brave but heaven to those who deserve it. ~ Basque Proverb
- Edicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. ~ Mark Victor Hansen
- First deserve, and then desire. ~ English Proverb
- Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. ~ Jane Austen
- He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things. ~ Belgian Proverb
- He who gossips and he who listens to it deserve to be thrown to the dogs. ~ Hebrew Proverb
- I used to hurt so badly that I’d ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That’s the way I see it. ~ Janet Jackson
- If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. ~ A. A. Milne
- It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. ~ Joseph Joubert
- It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one and not deserve it! ~ Mark Twain
- Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
- None but the brave deserve the fair. ~ John Dryden
- People deserve… the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it’s essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ~ Bruce Springsteen
- People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan
- People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards. ~ Pat Riley
- Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. ~ Doris Lessing
- The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. ~ Moliere
- The person who asks for little deserves nothing. ~ Mexican Proverb
- Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness. ~ Johann G. Fichte
- Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved. ~ Indian Proverb
- We don’t always get what we deserve, but we often get what we ask for. ~ Victor C. Dymowski
- We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. ~ Doug Horton
- We won’t even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. ~ Ruth Ross
- Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~ James Thurber
- You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. ~ American Proverb
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha
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- A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. ~ Steven Wright
- A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. ~ Adrian Edmondson
- A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time. ~ Mariah Carey
- A lot of people become saints because of their stomach. ~ Indian Proverb
- A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. ~ Les Brown
- A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion. ~ Martin Yan
- A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do. ~ Marilyn Manson
- A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one. ~ Chuck Norris
- A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been rather than where they are going. ~ Author Unknown
- A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell
- A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.~ Steve Prefontaine
- A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.~ Bill Walton
- There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. ~ Lisa M. Amos
- God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message. ~ Edmund W Littlefield
- A lot of people have the ability, but they don’t put forth the effort. ~ Joe Carter
- If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. ~ Robert Townsend
- Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition. ~ Magic Johnson
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
- There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more. ~ Woody Hayes
- When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~ Bernard Baily
- You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. ~ Barbara De Angelis
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- An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. ~ William Ellery Channing
- Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ~ Andrew Marvell
- Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman. ~ Chinese Proverb
- I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
- I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. ~ Dashiell Hammett
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. ~ C. S. Lewis
- If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ~ Rabbi Ben Azai
- Lazy people have no spare time. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~ Edward L. Bernays
- Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~ Samuel Pepys
- Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. ~ John Armstrong
- Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. ~ Author Unknown
- Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
- Spare the rod and spoil the child. ~ Samuel Butler
- Spare us what we can learn to endure. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- The poor have no time to spare. ~ Japanese Proverb
- There’s time enough, but none to spare. ~ Charles W. Chesnutt
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~ Josh Billings
- To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~ Marcel Proust
- Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. ~ Lucian
- Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson
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