Building Quotes

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Work, Today

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Zig Ziglar

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa

Stupidity, Universe, Basic

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Daily, Old

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Education, Personal

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Successful, Important, Belief

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn

Work, Good, End

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Before, Learned, Process

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin

Away, Felt, Doctor

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

Money, Passion, Hard

Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn

Good, End, Whatever

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm

Fire, Light, Moment

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand

Integrity, Seldom

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Down, Living, Off

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney

Work, Art, Business

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
Mitt Romney

Might, Security, Military

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
Ron Paul

Time, Saying, Country

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton

Trying, Until, Started

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.
Justin Bieber

Crazy, Done, Night

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan

Good, Equality, Goal

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.
Paul Ryan

Strong, Justice, Person

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

Religion, Freedom, Society

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
Jack White

Today, Creative, Kids

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller

Beauty, God, Light

We all know that a church is not a building.
Robert H. Schuller

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison

Education, Matter, Bridges

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher

Religion, Flying, Initiative

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

Children, Enough, Content

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
Lil Wayne

Future, Past, Down

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
Mark Zuckerberg

Family, Today, Friends

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