Builder Quotes

• Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational Sports, Men, Body

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Causes, Action

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wrestling, Destiny, Action

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

  Ray Comfort

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.

  David Letterman

  Running, Body, Littles

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Military, Hero, Wonder

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.

  Edgar Cayce

  Reality, Mind, Vision

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• We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

  Oscar Romero

  Differences, May, Ends

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• The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Writing, Men

  Letter to his son Christopher Tolkien on August 09, 1945. "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien", 1981.

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• Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Opportunity, Innovation, Add

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2013

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• Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

  Peter O'Toole

  Husband, Home, Water

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Thankful, Gratitude, Grateful

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

  Anthony Mackie

  Hipster, Guy, Feel Good

  "How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

  Freya Stark

  New York, Erosion, Sky

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

  Bill Mollison

  Worry, Design, Looks

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• Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.

  Ruth McKenney

  Struggle, Perfect, Long

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• Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Spiritual, Technology, Soul

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• The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

  Brian Tracy

  Encouragement, Powerful, People

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• The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Education, Athlete

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

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• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Rain, Thinking

  T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages”

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• Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Memories, Preparation, Library

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