Top 91 Foundation For Life Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#3. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Aberjhani
#4. God's Word not only gives authority to one's ministry; it provides a solid foundation for one's life.
Billy Graham
#5. The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#6. Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'
Richard Rohr
#7. Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
John D. Rockefeller
#8. A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
Jim Bunning
#9. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.
Calvin W. Allison
#10. I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#11. Even so we need the superstructure of spiritual life if we would have comfort in the day of doubt. But seek not a holy life without faith, for that would be to erect a house which can afford no permanent shelter, because it has no foundation on a rock.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.
B. Margoliouth
#14. The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.
Tom Cunningham
#15. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.
David Levithan
#16. And what more transcendent aim can there be than to recall the way, the truth and the life, and to remember God?
Foundation For Inner Peace
#17. If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well supported teachers who can help prepare them for success in college, life and careers.
Randi Weingarten
#18. 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
#19. Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.
John Wesley
#20. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
Dalai Lama
#21. A solid foundation for us makes a great partner for someone else.-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#22. Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
Jim Hunt
#23. 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
#24. I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.
Laurie R. King
#25. [I'm a conscious parent when I believe] a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.
Shefali Tsabary
#26. You must channel your energy towards what you love, for what you love is the foundation of your life.
Leon Brown
#27. Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.
Emily Post
#28. Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.
Stacy Allison
#29. I realized that I had to rebuild my foundation. I had a choice about how to see my life: I could look only at the negative or I could emphasise the positive. It took all the energy I could muster to accept that my miscarriage had happened for a reason.
Zara Phillips
#31. The primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#32. 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
#33. Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for 'Knowledge' is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).
Dada Bhagwan
#34. Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.
Gwee Li Sui
#36. Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.
Marian Deegan
#37. 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
#38. Trust is delicate and fragile to gain, with sincerity it leads to the golden foundation for success.
Akinwumi Jarule
#39. Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
Sam Keen
#40. 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
#41. Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert Newton Casson
#42. When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
Benazir Bhutto
#43. I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
Dave Davies
#44. The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.
Donna Goddard
#45. Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#46. The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
Albert Einstein
#47. Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone rest all our hopes for a new politics, a new society, a revitalized life. If we do not genuinely know ourselves, the void will now, at last, surely rise up to meet us.
Vivian Gornick
#48. One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.
Kay Robertson
#49. The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.
Richard G. Scott
#51. The routine helped the healing process. It gave me structure. It eliminated any sense of surprise, which at that point, I really didn't want anymore surprises in my life. Routine gave me the foundation for creat- ing a healthier life.
Sharon E. Rainey
#52. Laws are the foundation on which a fulfilling life is built for a community. Laws are the answer.
Amish Tripathi
#53. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins
#54. 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
#55. Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation.
William Henry Channing
#56. I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer
#57. In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth)
Wendell Berry
#58. There is need for a new foundation and this foundation is laid in us on the day of our salvation
Sunday Adelaja
#59. There is the globe,
The foundation of my bodily existence.
It wears me out with work and duties,
It gives me rest in old age,
It gives me peace in death.
For the on who supplied me with what I needed in life
Will also give me what I need in death.
Zhuangzi
#60. The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.
John Bradshaw
#61. 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
#62. Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.
DeVon Franklin
#63. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammad Iqbal
#64. I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life!
Tim McCarthy
#65. Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
#66. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.
Eric Foner
#67. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
Nelson Mandela
#68. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.
Fred Kavli
#69. 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
#70. To praise the contemplative life is not to reject every other form of life, but to seek a solid foundation for every other human striving. Without
Thomas Merton
#71. Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.
Abhishek Ratna
#72. one of the first principles that any believer in any phase of his life must enforce is to honor God as the center of his daily living and to make communion with God the foundation for all his other activities.
Vincent Cheung
#73. The only foundation for ... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Benjamin Rush
#74. Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful life.
Sunday Adelaja
#75. Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Rumi
#77. The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].
Dada Bhagwan
#78. 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
#79. Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.
Dalai Lama
#80. The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
Jane Fonda
#81. We must have faith, for this is the foundation; we must have holiness of life, for this is the superstructure.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
Ann Lewin-Benham
#83. The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
Charles William Eliot
#84. In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.
Mark Sayers
#85. That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.
Gregory MacDonald
#86. For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.
Tim Tebow
#87. Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.
Jeffrey Tucker
#88. You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
Craig Groeschel
#90. Every stage of life lay the foundation for the next stage of life. Treasure each stage of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
