Quotes About Foundation

It's hard not to notice that hope is the foundation of this typical approach. But insiders like Ray Dalio don't rely on hope. Hope is not a strategy when it comes to your family's well-being.

It is often said that a secure childhood makes the best foundation for a happy life. In marked contrast to her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart enjoyed an exceptionally cosseted youth. It is left to the judgement of history to decide whether it did, in fact, adequately prepare her for the extreme stresses with which the course of her later life confronted her.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Good art cannot be defined. There is only great art that creates new ideas and then there are imitations of varying degrees. There is no best way or only way. We learn from the past, in order to understand the present. The past is our foundation, the springboard into the future. Tradition and past ideas are important bases to begin with, but can be traps if misunderstood.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

CORO Aver senno è di molto il primo fondamento di una vita felice.»

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.

If you don't believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

Depend on the Source, not the extensions (people) and you'll have the REAL life.

God is the builder of life.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

rooted in incidents that at the time seemed insignificant.

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.

God and his word are the reality we need -- the Rock under our feet.

God gives you Christ as the foundation of your marriage. "Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God" (Rom. 15:7). . . . Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and Papers from Prison, 31–32

The acid test of biblical God-centeredness-and faithfulness to the gospel-is this: Do you feel more loved because God makes much of you, or because, at the cost of his Son, he enables you to enjoy making much of him forever? Does your happiness hang on seeing the cross of Christ as a witness to your worth, or as a way to enjoy God's worth forever? Is God's glory in Christ the foundation of your gladness?

Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.