Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Hassan Fathy
The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away — Colonel Sanders
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. — Sai Baba
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. — Rick Perry
Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night. — Iggy Azalea
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. — David Allan Coe
Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways. — Pierre Omidyar
Keep building, steadily and consistently. — Changpeng Zhao
Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion. — Sterling W Sill
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual. — Mencius
Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding. — Naval Ravikant
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. — Anna Quindlen
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges
Build for the long term and the short term will take care of itself. — Rand Fishkin
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. — John Ruskin
Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving. — Geoffrey Canada
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. — Ken Wilber
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Building A Strong Foundation Quotes
When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future. — Muhammad Yunus
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character. — Alfred Armand Montapert
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble. — Anne Akiko Meyers
It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen. — Barack Obama
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America. — Bev Perdue
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything. — Jack Scalia
I love the theater. I love the rehearsals. That's where you build a performance. That's your foundation. If you're gonna build a house, you start with the foundation. That makes the house strong. That's the way I build a character, from the foundation out. — Jack Klugman
We cannot allow our Republican party to be based on what Olympia Snowe and Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln may or may not do. What's smart about that? You do that, build a strong future on a foundation with unreliable keystones. — Rush Limbaugh
The best way to build anything is to build it together and build it with diversity, because then you really get good ideas about how to be strong. And you need a strong foundation, which brings about the notion that all of us in the neighborhoods, I still consider myself to be one of them. — John Kasich
Building A Solid Foundation Quotes
Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust. — Raymond Arroyo
Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation. — Robert Kiyosaki
Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation. — Steve Tisch
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. — James Altucher
If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do. — Rod Dixon
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. — Linwood Barclay
When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
Want to become a champion? Then build your successes on a solid foundation of failure! — Jan Garavaglia
If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. — Alfred Armand Montapert
Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets. — Sachin Tendulkar
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole. — Novak Djokovic
Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. — M. Russell Ballard
Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid. — Owen Feltham
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.
That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed. — Ian McEwan
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do. — Bill Cosby
Foundation Is Important Quotes
What’s most important? Is it talent, passion, intensity, or purpose? I would say purpose, because it’s the foundation of consistency. And consistency — as unsexy as it may be — differentiates success from failure and ultimately good from great. — Rich Roll
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations. — Margaret E. Knight
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. — Nelson Mandela
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each of these virtues are independently important but together they provide the foundation for a worthy life. — Michael Josephson
I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all — Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families. — Philip Yancey
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. — Thomas Mann
A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone. — Anne Wojcicki
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around. — Theodore Zeldin
Strong Foundation Quotes
If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are. — Charles Stanley
If the market doesn't shake out the weak hands, it won't have the strong foundation to grow further. — Changpeng Zhao
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. — Tina Turner
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Truth is complete in itself. Truth has a strong foundation in itself. It is bold, it has no fears. It has no limit of space or time. It is a fearless, free bird in the sky. It does not care for status. It is wealth in itself. Truth stands even when there is no public support. — Sivananda
The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion. — Santiago Calatrava
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young. — Bob Dylan
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy! — Ray Lewis
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. — Haile Selassie
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence. — Queen Elizabeth II
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. — Samuel Adams
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science. — Kenny Marchant
Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today. — Jim Elliot
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. — Confucius
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. — J. K. Rowling
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame. — Brander Matthews
Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. — Mike Paul
I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere. — Kofi Annan
Establishing achievable, small, daily goals to build self-trust and discipline forms a foundation for consistency and success. — Gary Brecka
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand. — J. C. Watts
Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty. — Michael Douglas
Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust. — Patrick Lencioni
Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical. — Patrick Lencioni
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. — Charlotte Bronte
People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry. — Trevor Noah
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives. — Danica McKellar
If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up. — Isabella Blow
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build. — Thomas Keller
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. — Diane Wood
If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away. — Wilmer Valderrama
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. — Alan Keyes
Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind. — Pope Benedict XVI
Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner — Thomas J. Stanley
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky. — Christmas Humphreys
A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged. — Zell Miller
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start. — Ronald Reagan
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. — Charles Caleb Colton
Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace. — Daisaku Ikeda
I dreamed there would be a time to come together to "build out the Hope Reformation that would bring certain shifts to the leaders in the Body of Christ." In this dream, I saw the buildings of revival and prayer and there was some divine activity that was good and needed and foundational for what God was doing on the earth. — Bob Hartley
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles. — George Porter
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