Top 100 A Foundation Quotes
#1. You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
Khalil Gibran
#2. You were chosen by God to create the destiny of the nation and to lay a foundation for the generations to come
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.
Abhishek Ratna
#4. Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.
Francisco Costa
#5. Real love involves a foundation of respect, honesty, and trust, concepts wholly missing from the pale imitations hawked to us by the folks who script 'unscripted' entertainment.
Jennifer L. Pozner
#6. Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
Joel Salatin
#7. Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.
Debbie Ford
#8. Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I conclude that since men love at their own will and fear at the will of the prince, a wise prince must build a foundation on what is his own, and not on what belongs to others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#9. The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.
John J. Ratey
#10. That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity.
Henry B. Eyring
#11. I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.
Aerin Lauder
#12. If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.
Scott Klusendorf
#13. Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
J.C. Ryle
#14. A foundation that had been built of stone shifted like sand on the blowing wind.
R.A. Salvatore
#15. I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.
George Carlin
#16. The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.
Bill Gates
#17. I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.
Stephen Covey
#19. Sometimes two people find each other with broken foundation, and they build something together as a team to make a foundation that is indestructible. - AK Brown
Swapna Rajput
#20. Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.
Nathan Myhrvold
#21. I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.
Negash Ali
#22. Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall
#23. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.
Boris Kodjoe
#24. I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.
Tracy Millosovich
#25. I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.
Andrew Weil
#26. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.
Farshad Asl
#27. 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
#28. Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
Isabel Allende
#29. Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.
Jessie J.
#30. Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
Agnes Repplier
#31. Oh, and I died horribly at your hands. Gruesome murder is always a foundation for a beautiful friendship!
S.J. Kincaid
#32. Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
John D. Rockefeller
#33. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think ... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank
#34. We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.
Roger McNamee
#35. Once a woman is comfortable in her own skin, living her own life and building a foundation by herself; it takes one heck of a man to make her want to sacrifice her independence.
Nikki Rowe
#36. The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes
the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. In one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security ...
Saunders Mac Lane
#38. Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built.
Derek R. Audette
#39. Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.
Patricia Velasquez
#40. As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.
John Battelle
#41. Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.
Joe Rogan
#42. The best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of.
Robyn Carr
#43. If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#44. Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
Bill Drayton
#45. Why was it in hindsight you could see the cracks in a foundation you'd have otherwise thought was solid and smooth?
R.J. Lewis
#46. My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento ... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.
Tony La Russa
#48. The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
Laura Lippman
#49. I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time
Rafe Esquith
#50. The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste Comte
#51. When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
George Soros
#52. What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.
Julianna Margulies
#53. It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
Booker T. Washington
#54. It is pointless to build your life on a foundation of illusions
Sunday Adelaja
#55. Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
Boyd K. Packer
#56. Society was built on a foundation of fear, not authenticity. I get too numb when I join the world. I lose my openness, my access to the divine.
Jeff Brown
#57. The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Don Rose
#58. Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#59. In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.
Gretchen Carlson
#60. Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.
Leonid Brezhnev
#61. It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
Arthur C. Clarke
#62. There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.
Tina Fey
#63. It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man. - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.
Usher
#64. Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Neil L. Andersen
#65. I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
I.M. Pei
#66. My wife Ruth once said, If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakeable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
Billy Graham
#67. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
Joe Shuster
#68. It's funny. I competed against a 13-year old girl at the Winter X Games. I looked down at her birth date and it said 2000. I was like, "Huh, I wonder if she even knows what Y2K is?" But I guess I've just been able to build a foundation.
Kelly Clark
#69. Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James Dobson
#70. All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
Bell Hooks
#71. You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
Jack Nicklaus
#72. Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
Amy Chua
#73. Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?
Frank Stronach
#74. It's easy to identify the change that is needed in one's life, however, making that change and sticking to it takes a foundation fortified in faith and a desire to be openly authentic" ~ Jay Noetic
Linai Booker
#75. Your vision not only becomes the future place you desire to live, but it becomes a foundation for your life's decisions.
Lisa A. Mininni
#76. One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...
Ellen Glasgow
#77. The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.
Trey Songz
#78. What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.
Matthew Lewis
#79. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick William Faber
#80. The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
Thomas Keller
#81. Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.
Tipper Gore
#82. The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
George Washington
#83. [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
Jonah Goldberg
#84. I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.
Keri Smith
#85. We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
Malcolm Turnbull
#86. We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.
Karen Russell
#87. That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
Ian McEwan
#88. A foundation built upon trust will accomplish more than a foundation built upon worry.
K.R. Royal
#89. Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.
Garrison Wynn
#90. A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
Armstrong Williams
#91. It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.
Nora Roberts
#92. What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#93. For wherever mystery serves as a foundation, only ruins may be erected.
Thomas Ligotti
#94. Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.
John Locke
#95. A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.
Eban Goodstein
#96. Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.
Madelaine Standing
#98. No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
William Ralph Inge
#99. Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
Ha-Joon Chang
#100. Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
Solange Knowles
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