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Quotes About Foundation

The most important of these skills, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control.
~ Robert Greene
While Morgan-who died in 1890 after falling off his horse-drawn carriage near the Italian border-must be remembered for laying the foundation for the House of Morgan
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
Living a life without prayer is like building a house without nails. - Unknown
~ Kenneth W. Osbeck
onto the bare ground next to the cement foundation of the old house when Lorraine came out and said she had a phone call.
~ Kent Haruf
Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Henry Ford was afraid that the amount of dirt that was being removed to make room for the foundation of the Empire State Building was so great that it would have a disastrous effect on the rotation of the Earth. Not a genius.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
You know a constitution is kind of like a blueprint," Charlotte said thoughtfully. "Getting a real working government out of it is the true act of construction.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
~ Kristin Hannah
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship.
~ Masiela Lusha
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.
~ Samuel Adams
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
~ Dalai Lama
First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
~ Gregory Bateson
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.
~ Thomas Paine
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
~ Max Muller
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
~ Thomas Carlyle
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.
~ Lord Melbourne
Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.
~ Dalai Lama
I firmly believe that when you have a foundation of respect, love of what you're doing, and a shared vision, so much is possible.
~ Kerri Walsh