Foundation Quotes - Page 13

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

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

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

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

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

The foundation of beauty is the body.