Cornerstones Quotes

• Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

  John Wooden

  Strong, Anchors, Foundation

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Spiritual, Work

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• Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Work

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.

  Sara Bareilles

  Important, Honest, Speak

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Character, Imagination, Independence

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• The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Foundation, Educated

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Truth

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  Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Ambition, Men

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Teaching, Democracies Have

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Book, School, People

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• To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Forgiveness, Healing

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• The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Radical Feminism, Feminist, Political

  "Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man". eagleforum.org. February 16, 2005.

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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• In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

  Kamisese Mara

  Order, Understanding, Tolerance

  Kamisese Mara (1977). “Selected speeches”

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• Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

  Rick Renzi

  Strong, Home, Community

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• Education is a human right with immense power to transform

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2016

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• No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared my original Success Pyramid years ago, I put industriousness and enthusiasm as the two cornerstones with LOYALTY right in the middle of the pyramid - Loyalty to yourself and to all those dependent upon you.

  John Wooden

  Loyalty, Athlete, Men

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• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Life, Foundation

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• Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Law, Parent

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

  Manmohan Singh

  Needs, Behavior, Ethical

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• The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love You, Caring, Self

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• Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Philosophical, Men, Race

  Cornerstone Speech, Delivered 21 March 1861, Savannah, Georgia

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• Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Worry, Choices

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• Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

  Mark Thomas

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Free Speech

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