Building Quotes

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi.”
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

“The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”
― Dan Wells, Partials

“Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.
What it's going to be, I don't know.
Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.
And maybe knowing isn't the point.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Once their trust grows stronger, reputation is built. And in the digital age, reputation is more expensive than anything.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building.
Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.”
― Jim Benton, Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers

“If you want to build a better business, you must build better relationships. Relationships are crucial to developing the business you hope to achieve.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

“5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:

1 Post content that add value
2 Spread positivity
3 Create steady stream of info
4 Make an impact
5 Be yourself”
― Germany Kent

“Momentum builds success.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace.”
― Brian Strang

“Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up”
― Sameh Elsayed

“Mustang...' I rest my hand on her wrist. Despite her strength, it's frail in my hands. Frail as the other girl's was when I held her in the deepmines. I couldn't help that girl. And now I feel like I can't help this woman. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994”
― Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing

“The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)”
― Sarah Turnbull, Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

“Kujenga urafiki na wanasiasa wakati mwingine ni kitu kizuri. Wanasaidia kurahisisha mambo.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Democracy had not solved the problem of building large-scale urban public works, so Moses solved it by ignoring democracy.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

“I love work
and working
and how it shapes you.
When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder.
When you plant a garden, you have plants
and a gardener, too.
When you teach, if you remain open to the discovery itself,
you have a lifetime of learning.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Building willpower is simple: just do the things you don't want to do, and don't do the things you want to do.”
― Robert Celner

“I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“A victorious mindset is often preserved by those focused on building rather than destroying others through what they are thinking or saying.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, A Manual for Victory

“This, then, is the job ahead. It is the job of building broad, deep People’s Organizations which are all-inclusive of both the people and their many organizations. It is the job of uniting, through a common interest which far transcends individual differences, all the institutions and agencies representative of the people. It is the job of building a People's Organization so that people will have faith in themselves and in their fellow men. It is the job of educating our people so that they will be informed to the point of being able to exercise an intelligent critical choice as to what is true and what is false. It is the job of instilling confidence in men so that they are sure they can destroy all of the evils which afflict them and their fellows, whether unemployment, war, or other man-made disasters. It is the greatest job man could have — the actual opportunity of creating and building a world of decency, dignity, peace, security, happiness; a world worthy of man and worthy of the name of civilization. This is the job ahead.

The building of these People's Organizations and the achievement of popular participation cannot and will not be done by denouncing the present deplorable condition of democracy. It will not be done by wailing self-recriminations. It can be done only by setting ourselves to the dirty, monotonous, heart-breaking job of building People’s Organizations. It can be done only by possessing the infinite patience and faith to hang on as parts of the organization disintegrate; to rebuild, add on, and continue to build.

It can be done only by those who believe in, have faith in, and are willing to make every sacrifice for the people. Those who see fearlessly and clearly; they will be your radicals. The radical will look squarely at all issues. He will not be so weighted down with material or malignant prejudice that he can only look upward with a worm’s-eye view. He will not look down upon mankind with the distorted, unrealistic, ivory-tower bird’s-eye view, but will look straight ahead on the dead level, seeing man as a man. Not from a long distance, up or down, but as a man living among men.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals

“Learning from history is important to building our future. We should not ignore the mistakes of past leaders, nations, and people. They are tools for us; their destruction can be our instruction.”
― Brian Simmons, Courage to Conquer: 365 Devotions from Joshua, Judges, and Ruth

“He realized the bridge wasn’t a product; it was an act. Its worth wasn’t in its finish, but in the choice to build it, step-by-step, even while the water rushed below.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Boxmaker’s Apprentice

“The world would be a better place if more men were focused on building a meaningful legacy instead of building their need for Instant gratification and a myriad of sexual partners.

Men have the power to build their own legacy that'll help not only their great grandchildren but also the WORLD! If men could only understand they have the ability to instill this BEING within themselves, the world would be a better place.

As women our job from here on out should be to teach our children how to build something that outlives them, even if they are all grown up.”
― Minel Powell