Firm Foundation Quotes

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

  Owen Chamberlain

  Past, Foundation, Research

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• As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Victory, Foundation

  Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation speech in Cape Town, South Africa, www.iol.co.za. February 11, 2005.

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• A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Long, Effort

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• There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

  Harrison Ford

  Real, Simple, Steps

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Stress, What Matters

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• Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Rocks, Foundation

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• Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

  Lou Holtz

  Foundation, Fundamentals, Empires

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• Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Despair, Foundation

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• Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Foundation, Generations

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• True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Humility, Foundation

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3683, Delphi Classics

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• The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spiritual, Children, Self Esteem

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• Marriage is the lightning rod that absorbs anxiety and stress from all other sources, past and present. When marriage has a firm foundation of solid friendship and mutual respect, it can tolerate a fair amount of raw emotion. A good fight can clear the air, and it's nice to know we can survive conflict and even learn from it. Many couples, however, get trapped in endless rounds of fighting and blaming that they don't know how to get out of. When fights go unchecked and unrepaired, they can eventually erode love and respect, which are the bedrock of any successful relationship.

  Harriet Lerner

  Couple, Nice, Stress

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 14, 2013

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• For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that it was the living truth. It was logically incontrovertible. It provided for the first time a firm foundation for ethics. It offered mankind the radical change of heart and mind that was our only hope of peace at a time of desperate danger. Only one small problem remained. I must find a way to convert the world to my way of thinking.

  Freeman Dyson

  Heart, Thinking, Small Problems

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• To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Foundation, Happy Marriage, Spirit

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.158, The Floating Press

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• Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Soldier, Loyal, Foundation

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• If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

  Confucius

  Loyalty, Mistake, Gentleman

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• 'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.

  Gottlob Frege

  Science, Men, Mind

  "The thought: A logical inquiry" by Gottlob Frege in "Readings in the Philosophy of Language" edited by Peter Ludlow, (p. 27), 1997.

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• Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Strong, Character, Greatness

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• It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Hurt, Disappointment, Communication

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• Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, People, Simplicity

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

  Sterling Hayden

  Mean, Sea, Play

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

  Sterling Hayden

  Challenges, Foundation, Unrest

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Leaving, Together

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