Top 95 Build Bridges Quotes
#1. We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw
Eboo Patel
#2. You can use your time to build bridges or walls. The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.
Rick Warren
#3. Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.
Abhijit Naskar
#4. Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Richard Attias
#6. At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls.
George Carey
#7. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
Tom Clancy
#8. We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.
Luis Gutierrez
#9. With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide.
Farshad Asl
#11. Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.
Carl Rogers
#12. Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.
Steve Keen
#13. Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Walls don't work ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
James G. Stavridis
#15. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
Sonia Sotomayor
#16. The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
Richard V. Allen
#17. Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
#18. Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
Fred Thompson
#19. I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.
Rick Warren
#20. We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September,
Sharif El-Gamal
#21. Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Fred Thompson
#23. Come, let us build bridges of love with each other with the cement of kindness and pillars of trust.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
Dale Carnegie
#25. Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
Richard Attias
#26. Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A.R. Rahman
#28. There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
Ron White
#29. I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#30. When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
Rick Pitino
#31. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.
Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.
Nova Ren Suma
#32. Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.
Peter Morville
#33. We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.
Douglas Kennedy
#34. Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.
Oprah Winfrey
#35. Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.
Richie Norton
#36. Politicians sre the same all over.They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushev
#37. I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife and my step-son, or my daughter and my ex, I'm that guy in the middle, and I try to make sure we all stay together.
Chad Coleman
#38. We must build bridges to the future, not the past.
David Axelrod
#39. Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
Billy Graham
#40. Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams.
Robert Kiyosaki
#41. Try to build bridges of understanding. Don't build higher barriers of misunderstanding.
Dale Carnegie
#42. No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.
Suzy Duffy
#43. Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
Adolf Hitler
#44. Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
Kato Lomb
#45. Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times ... to a hundred times more than the, uh ... real engineer?
A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams.
And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
Andrew Sheng
#46. Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Cory Booker
#47. When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
Bitsie Tulloch
#48. IN OUR SOCIETY, MARCUS, the most admired men are those who build bridges, skyscrapers, and empires. But in reality, the proudest and most admirable are those who manage to build love. Because there is no greater or more difficult undertaking.
Joel Dicker
#49. Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.
Tim Brown
#50. We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.
Widad Akreyi
#52. It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side - just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can stand up on them and walk to the other side.
Markus Zusak
#53. Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
Richard M. Nixon
#54. Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
Victoria Osteen
#55. Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness ... Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses.
Frank Ocean
#56. The world is a bridge: cross it, but build no house upon it.
Akbar
#57. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help ... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama
#58. My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.
William J. Clinton
#59. The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Nelson Mandela
#60. I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
William J. Clinton
#61. Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.
Sathya Sai Baba
#62. Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.
Anthony Foxx
#63. When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.
Joseph Straus
#64. I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
Richard M. Nixon
#65. Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.
Lionel Suggs
#66. Christianity has lost its place at the center of American life. Christians must learn how to live the gospel as a distinct people who no longer occupy the center of society. We must learn to build relational bridges that win a hearing."7
Hugh Halter
#67. We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.
William J. Clinton
#68. Advocacy is better served when fellow activists are able to respond in ways that do not build walls or burn bridges. Change takes time and tends to come hard to human beings. Those who understand this human tendency are more effective activists.
Lisa Kemmerer
#69. You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals
Ian Paisley
#70. An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.
Rick Pitino
#72. Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!
Dave Mustaine
#73. Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
Jerry Bridges
#74. No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.
Janet Evanovich
#75. Build a bridge by extending your hand.
Ken Poirot
#76. Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.
John Hoeven
#77. If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
Adam Carolla
#78. If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.
Angelique Kidjo
#79. Better to build a bridge than a wall.
Elton John
#80. Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
#81. Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.
Rocky Bridges
#82. When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.
Warren Buffett
#83. I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.
Jason Reeves
#84. Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before.
Nora Roberts
#85. If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.
Liberace
#86. To build the bridges of love, extend your hands of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#87. I will be steel!
I will build a steel bridge over my need!
I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
But my future is a secret.
It is as shy as a mole.
Anne Sexton
#88. They're pretty good at building stuff," her sister said. "Like bridges and roads. I mean, could you even build a hut? Your basic mud hut?" "I could build a hut," said Cecilia. "You probably could," groaned Bridget,
Liane Moriarty
#89. We'll build a bridge of love between two worlds.
Pocahontas
#91. When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
Max Lucado
#92. Memory is like that, too. We build careful bridges. But they're weaker than we think.
Lauren Oliver
#93. DESIGN & BUILD
Faith Fashions Fate = Belief Builds Bridges
Kamil Ali
#94. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
#95. We build too many walls and not enough bridges." Why
Chris Luke
