Tear Down To Build Up Quotes

#1. Those who build are greater than those who tear down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

Deborah Tannen

#3. You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man.

Adrian Selby

#4. I don't know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole

Tina Carreiro

#5. Stay here with us," said the voice from the figure at the end of the room. "We will listen to you and play with you and laugh with you. Your other mother will build whole worlds for you to explore, and tear them down every night when you are done.

Neil Gaiman

#6. We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

Nikola Tesla

#7. The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#8. It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women rather than tear them down. Be self-aware and proactive. It's not wrong to have those thoughts, but you can change how you respond to those feelings. Take a mental step back, and think about why you're feeling that way.

Lilly Singh

#9. This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

Andrea Gibson

#10. You tear me down just to build me up again. All I can think is: you are a psycho-clown.

Coco J. Ginger

#11. False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

Tony Dungy

#12. This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear and longing, the need to tear down and the need to build up are synonymous and one.

Robert Vivian

#13. Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Spike Lee

#14. It takes a thousand bricks to build a wall, but only one to tear it down.

Markus W. Lunner

#15. You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you're also the only person who can topple them. Other people can't knock down the walls you've built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there's something worth seeing on the other side.

Emery Lord

#16. My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

John Shelby Spong

#17. You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#18. Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up.

Alexander Strauch

#19. We'll build a fortress to keep them out
And in a world gone silent, I'll be your sound
And if they try to hurt you, I'll tear them down
I'm always with you know

Emma Hewitt

#20. I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile

Eyedea

#21. A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

Kevin Rudd

#22. If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.

Matthew Carter

#23. Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.

Rick Riordan

#24. Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Brigham Young

#25. They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

Lester Bangs

#26. We are all of life
who stepped from the sea
trading weightless journeys of the currents
We are all of life
who build and tear down and build again
to find gold and silver
to find scars that weep and bleed
to step from the sea
to stay with the sea

Tamara Rendell

#27. Nothing is free. If you stay safe, the price is never knowing love. Because to receive love, you have to give love. And to give love is to be vulnerable. You can build walls and be lonely or you can tear them down and hand over your heart." "What

Susan Mallery

#28. Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we act, and how we choose to react will influence not only ourselves but also those around us. We can build up, or we can tear down.

Per G. Malm

#30. It takes a fraction of the time it took us to generate and build to tear down the trust that we have developed over the years...

Assegid Habtewold

#31. I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

Kellan Lutz

#32. We do not fight to tear down but to build up.

Lisa Bevere

#33. I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Andre Leon Talley

#34. Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

Conrad Aiken