(320 quotes found)
“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.”
Charles C. West
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
Zig Ziglar
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
Charlotte Bronte
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.”
William Morris
“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
Thomas Kempis
“To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
William Blake
“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.”
Claude McKay