These chain quotes will inspire you. Chain a connected flexible series of metal links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging chain quotes, chain sayings, and chain proverbs.
Famous Chain Quotes
- “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” ~ Nelson Mandela , Chain quotes about freedom
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“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” ~ Voltaire
- “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” ~ Ovid
- “We forge the chains we wear in life.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ~ Rosa Luxemburg
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“We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.” ~ Bradley Whitford
- “We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains – chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment – in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.” ~ Mark Twain
- “It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.” ~ Franz Kafka
- “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
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“The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.” ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.” ~ Lou Reed
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“Freedom is living without chains.” ~ Indra Devi
- “There’s a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn’t been married, he’d worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.” ~ Mark Goddard
- “Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.” ~ Thomas Friedman , Supply chain quotes
- “I’m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years, and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.” ~ Bob Balaban
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“Those who don’t move don’t notice their chains.” ~ Rosa Luxemburg
- “We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don’t consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals’ heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.” ~ Ingrid Newkirk
- “Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.” ~ Lennart Meri
- “The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.” ~ Joseph Hall
- “What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
- “We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can’t unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what’s there.” ~ J. Michael Straczynski
- “Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.” ~ Leon Trotsky
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“Good works are links that form a chain of love” Mother Theresa” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.” ~ Richard Owen , Life chain quotes
- “Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.” ~ Charles Sturt
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“No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.” ~ John Heywood
- “Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they’re going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that’s better living through bugs.” ~ John Doerr
- “While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they’ve done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.” ~ William Eldridge Odom
- “For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.” ~ Mortimer Zuckerman
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“Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.” ~ Antonio Porchia
- “Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.” ~ Frank Bruno
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“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” ~ Frederick Douglass
- “Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.” ~ Anthony Burgess
- “And I realized when I’d come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain-link stuff, and people would just look at me like I’d just landed from Mars. But I couldn’t do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.” ~ Frank Gehry
- “David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
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“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” ~ Simone Signoret
- “Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.” ~ Nicholas G. Carr
- “We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.” ~ Anne Sullivan Macy
- “If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.” ~ Toni Morrison
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“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.” ~ Arthur Rimbaud
- “Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.” ~ Zeno of Citium
- “Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but
victories.” ~ Douglas MacArthur - “The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is, of course, to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.” ~ Enrico Fermi
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“Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.” ~ Adlai Stevenson I
- “If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.” ~ Dave Pelzer , Break the chain quotes
- “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.” ~ Wade Boggs
- “I don’t feel I’m a step above anyone on this team. I’m just another link in the chain.” ~ Jeff Gordon
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“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” ~ Karl Marx
- “The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.” ~ Sophie Swetchine
- “Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks, and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.” ~ Rita Coolidge
- “I kind of worry about that a little bit – we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn’t show any Australian films.” ~ Yahoo Serious
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“I’m just another link in the chain.” ~ Jeff Gordon
- “Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.” ~ Truman Capote
- “Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.” ~ Paul Whiteman
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“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Through every rift of discovery, some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.” ~ Countee Cullen
Chain a series of connected links or rings usually of metal.
