Build Quotes

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.