Foundation Quotes
1787 quotes by 1319 authors
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
— Saint Augustine
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other…
— Saint Augustine
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
— Saint Augustine
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back…
— Sai Baba
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
— Stephen Baldwin
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When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
— Dennis Banks
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
— John Adams
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to…
— Annie Besant
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations…
— Annie Besant
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice…
— Benazir Bhutto
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world…
— Tony Blair
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