love breeds love

love breeds love

proverb If you show love, kindness, and goodwill toward someone, it will typically cause them to behave in a similar way to yourself or to others. I feel like we as a people are losing the notion that love breeds love these days, choosing instead to attack or criticize other people as our default reaction. I've always taken the stance that love breeds love, and, in my own experience, anyway, it has always borne out to be true.
See also: breed, love
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • beget
  • teach a man to fish
  • village
  • it takes a village
  • burnt
  • a burnt child dreads the fire
  • a man is judged by the company he keeps
  • a man is known by the company he keeps
  • bad workers always blame their tools
  • better bend than break
References in periodicals archive
How-ever, just as evil breeds evil, so love breeds love. After graduation, my colleague Marina Povarnyicina started working at Perm State University and opened there a Macedonian Language Department.