Build Your Foundation Quotes

#1. Know where you wanna go. Then get there. Start with small goals and they'll build your foundation for the bigger ones.

Author Cole Hart

#2. I think sometimes less is more. I don't think it helps to overdo exercising - I think you need to do it to keep your body healthy and fit, but there is a fine line between, you know, healthy and obsession. You have to build your foundation first. Your brain has to sort of connect to your body.

Martha Hunt

#3. You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

Roy Yamaguchi

#4. Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

Bill Vaughan

#5. When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

Diana Nyad

#6. You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#8. I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

Freddy Rodriguez

#9. 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

#10. Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love.

J.K. Rowling

#11. The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. About three million Muslims live in the country, but we have no relationship to our diverse Muslim society, despite the fact that it's an established part of our larger society. We need to build a stronger foundation for the relationship between Muslims and the state.

Wolfgang Schauble

#13. Want to become a champion? Then build your successes on a solid foundation of failure!

Jan Garavaglia

#14. You can let rejection define you. Or you can let it help build a stronger foundation for you to excel on.

Christie Palmer

#15. The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

Wesley Schultz

#16. Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

Ramsey Clark

#17. If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.

Stephen Richards

#18. I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

Lance Armstrong

#19. Building up a dream is like building a room; the foundation must be deep, strong, firm and dependable.

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

Agatha Christie

#21. A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Brian Chesky

#22. Many of us don't realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

Debbie Ford

#23. We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#24. Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

J.C. Ryle

#25. 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

#26. People are good medicine, but they can't be your foundation of functionality. You must build that yourself.

Heidi Cullinan

#27. Your past is your foundation, and if it's crumbling then you've got nothing left to build on.

C.M. Stunich

#28. You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.

Craig Groeschel

#29. It is pointless to build your life on a foundation of illusions

Sunday Adelaja

#30. Build strong foundation under your dreams.

Kishore Bansal

#31. Love is a solid foundation upon which to build your new life together.

T.A. Chase

#32. One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.

Stormie O'martian

#33. 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 A. Montapert

#34. I would say, my influences go back a little further than some folks. I think what your influences are can certainly help you. It's like a tree with really deep roots; the firmer they're planted in the ground, the better foundation you have to build upon.

Charlie Worsham

#35. Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.

Carlos Wallace

#36. Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

#37. As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.

Peter Thiel

#38. Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.

Thomas Starr King

#39. 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

#40. No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.

Seth Godin

#41. I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

Gretchen Rubin

#42. 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

#43. I think we have a good foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew laid down, but you have to move forward. Now the question is what can Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and his team, and all our younger ministers can do now to build on the foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has built.

Tony Tan

#44. If we fail to do something, the people following us will have nothing to build upon

Sunday Adelaja

#45. Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Peter Kreeft

#46. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.

Bell Hooks

#47. You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

Hill Harper

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. You have got to build a firm foundation on the living word of God. You have got to study it, to store it in your heart, to gain the wisdom that it gives and apply it to your life.

Calvin W. Allison

#52. Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

Billy Graham

#53. You can't build a foundation on lies.

Suze Orman

#54. Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel ... they would surely treat each other differently

Jeremy Aldana

#55. What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#56. As followers of Christ, we must remember always to build our defense of the Christian faith on the sure foundation of the Bible. If we do so, there will be no weight too great to be supported; no wind too strong to be resisted.

Richard L. Pratt Jr.

#57. Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#58. Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.

Robert Stuart MacArthur

#59. Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

Henry Fielding

#60. Productivity - true productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon.

Tim Challies

#61. And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

Paul The Apostle

#62. I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Sharon Kay Penman

#63. At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

George Hickenlooper

#64. We must be those who build on the rock-solid foundation of mind-engaging process, rather than on the shifting sands of 'what this verse means to me' subjectivity.

Jen Wilkin

#65. 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

#66. We must concern ourselves not with what is beyond life, or what is life, or what is the purpose of life, but rather with the understanding of this complex existence of everyday life, because that is the foundation upon which we must build.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#67. Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build their life upon.

Ace Antonio Hall

#68. Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#69. 20 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, 21 but as it is written, Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.

Anonymous

#70. I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

Gretchen Rubin

#71. Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

Victoria Osteen

#72. You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

Craig Groeschel

#73. Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

William Jennings Bryan

#74. 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

#75. The question was where to start. Where to build up a solid foundation of knowledge on which you could balance ideas. It wasn't exactly a modest ambition. But what I had learned from Natalie was that you could have a very immodest ambition if you went after it methodically.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#76. The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to 'build our house on a rock,' but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on the house. As if surety comes from construction, not from the foundation.

Anna Broadway

#77. Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Sean Covey

#78. 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

#79. Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

Lou Holtz

#80. In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Anne Frank

#81. 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

#82. You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.

T.F. Hodge

#83. A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.

Yehuda Berg

#84. 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

#85. Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Tom Vilsack

#86. Test your talents, pursue your passions, and let those experiences lead you to a sure sense of who you are. Build a strong core for yourself so that almost nothing and no one can shake you from that foundation. Don't be afraid to know what you want and go after it.

Mary Esselman

#87. The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Peter, "Upon this rock I will build my church" [Matthew 16:18]. He is the foundation of all Christian experience.

Billy Graham

#88. He hesitated, looking at her. The old Ellie was gone. Replaced by a woman who was detached and cold.
He didn't know what to say, how to reach her. There was a wall around her, and he'd laid the foundation for her to build it.

Kathy Love