Best 949 quotes in «foundation quotes» category

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.

Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

e foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends.

Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Even theories must have foundations.

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

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.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Fear is the foundation of all human limitations.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone

Foundations exist to help charities, to help those in need. And Mr. Trump has been incredibly generous throughout his career.

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may be painful, but it will be nothing compared with the crises we will face if we continue to grow in a way that threatens the life-support systems on which we rely

Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.