All Quotes

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
‐‐ Brian Chesky

Build the roads and the jobs follow.
‐‐ Tommy Thompson

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
‐‐ Knute Rockne

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
‐‐ Pat Gillick

Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.
‐‐ Hu Jintao

Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.
‐‐ Kevin McCloud

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
‐‐ Benjamin Bratt

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
‐‐ Edith Head

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?
‐‐ Myron Scholes

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.
‐‐ Colin Angle

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
‐‐ David Lynch

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
‐‐ Anthony Atala

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
‐‐ Ben Parr

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.
‐‐ Corneille Ewango

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
‐‐ Dan Phillips

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
‐‐ Alexei Mordashov

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.
‐‐ Jon Tester

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
‐‐ Donald Judd

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
‐‐ Larry Niven

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you're going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone.
‐‐ John Battelle

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
‐‐ John Barrasso