Building Quotes

• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Whatever good things we build end up building us.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 16, 2017

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• Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Imagine, Wheelchairs, Ifs

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Home, Building Up, Democracy

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Military

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 07, 2016

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Architecture, Restless

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Courage, Humor, Greatness

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

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• Clothing is the first step to building a character.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Firsts, Steps

  "Sylvester Stallone to Launch Men’s Brand" by Jean E. Palmieri, wwd.com. March 24, 2011.

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• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

  Louis Sullivan

  Design, Individuality, Spirit

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• If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

  Glenn Frey

  Perfect, Goal, Albums

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• My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Kansas, Generations, Small Business

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• I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Encouragement, Character, Creating

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• Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Cities, Gateways

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• Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

  Lee Konitz

  New York, Kids, Player

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

  Arne Jacobsen

  People, Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Fun, Air, Watches

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• Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Mother, Nature, New Orleans

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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  Warren Farrell

  Block, Giving, Roles

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

  Jane Byrne

  Mistake, Thinking, Campaigns

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• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Song, Bridges, Peasants

  "The Billboard book of rock arranging". Book by Mark Michaels, May 1, 1990.

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• The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Century, Process

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• It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  Robert Venturi

  Unusual, Prettiness

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• In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Doe, Eclectic Style

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