Quotes About Foundation

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there??shared vision and values.

But you can't change the fruit without changing the root.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is always going to be there—shared vision and values.

Positive personality traits, while often essential for success, constitute secondary greatness. To focus on personality before character is to try to grow the leaves without the roots

if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.

That leadership is primarily a function of who you are, for this is the foundation for everything you do. How do you build leaders? You first build character.

And if we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless. We know it; others know it. They sense duplicity and become guarded. There's no foundation of trust and Win/Win becomes an ineffective superficial technique. Integrity is the cornerstone in the foundation. MATURITY. Maturity is the balance

first build upon a strong core of principles that are not open for continuous change; at the same time, be relentless in the quest for improvement and continuous self-renewal. This dialectic enables an individual to retain a rock-solid foundation and attain sustained growth for a lifetime.

change, where each is confessing the other's "sins," where each is trying to shape up the other. I've seen labor-management disputes where people spend tremendous amounts of time and energy trying to create legislation that would force people to act as though the foundation of trust were really there.

You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

From the foundation of character, we build and maintain Win/Win relationships. The trust, the Emotional Bank Account, is the essence of Win/Win. Without trust, the best we can do is compromise; without trust, we lack the credibility for

Our security comes from knowing that, unlike other centers based on people or things which are subject to frequent and immediate change, correct principles do not change. We can depend on them.

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.

if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Personal effectiveness is the foundation of interpersonal effectiveness. Private victory precedes public victory. Strength of character and independence form the foundation for authentic, effective interaction with others.

Perhaps, in utilizing our human capacity to build on the foundation of generations before us, we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up; or in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths, generic common denominators. They are tightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty, and strength through the fabric of life.

you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence. You have the character base from which you can effectively work on the more personality-oriented "Public Victories" of teamwork, cooperation, and communication in Habits 4, 5, and 6.

It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up;