Builder Quotes

• Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational Sports, Men, Body

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Causes, Action

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wrestling, Destiny, Action

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.

  David Letterman

  Running, Body, Littles

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Military, Hero, Wonder

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

  Ray Comfort

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.

  Edgar Cayce

  Reality, Mind, Vision

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• We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

  Oscar Romero

  Differences, May, Ends

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• The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Writing, Men

  Letter to his son Christopher Tolkien on August 09, 1945. "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien", 1981.

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• Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

  Peter O'Toole

  Husband, Home, Water

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Thankful, Gratitude, Grateful

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Opportunity, Innovation, Add

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2013

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• Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sex, Artist, Creative

  Napoleon Hill (2005). “Think and Grow Rich with Foreword by Lewis Schiff”, p.138, Lulu.com

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• I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Ignorance

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• Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

  Nils Frahm

  Hurt, Piano, Important

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• People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

  Aristotle

  Player, Building Houses, People

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• Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

  Sappho

  Song, Sky, Mars

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• As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

  Renzo Piano

  Artist, Needs, Visionaries

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• Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

  Oscar Romero

  Life, Prophet, Ministers

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• Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet.

  Sarah Beeny

  Money, Home, Priorities

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• In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

  Morton Blackwell

  Volunteer, Politics, Faster

  "The Law of Politics". Book by Graeme Orr, 2010.

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