215+ Sensitive Building Communities Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
— Frank Lloyd Wright

Sensitive Building Communities quotations

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

Building communities quote Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. — Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Building communities quote You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. — You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Building communities quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult. — It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

Building communities quote If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than — If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.

If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

Building communities quote If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs. — If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.

Building communities quote When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack. — When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.

In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing.

If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

Building communities quote We build too many walls and not enough bridges. — We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Community means caring: caring for people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color.

This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

Building communities quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. — It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.

In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

Building communities quote The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, bu — The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of this country to work together, protecting one another, beginning with your families and communities, in building a world of justice, integrity and peace.

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

Building communities quote When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmill — When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

Building communities quote People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. — People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives.

All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.

Our mission in this new century is clear.

For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.