Foundation Quotes

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  The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Success, Faith

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 03, 2014

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

  Barbara Smith

  Love, Life, Trust

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Historical

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

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• If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Believe, Keys

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• I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Break Up, Breakup

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 20, 2016

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• The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Architecture, Building, Deeper

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Looks

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

  Luther Allison

  Wall, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Teaching, Democracies Have

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, Successful, Motherhood

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• 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

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Civilization, Mind, Sound

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Confusion

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

  Faith Hill

  Family

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Sap, Literature

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

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• For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

  Thomas Mann

  Flow, Timeless, Schemas

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.290, A&C Black

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• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Compassion, Reverence For Life, Ethics

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• The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

  Melinda Gates

  Charity, Next, Philanthropy

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

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Encouraging

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