Build Quotes

The whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace, and mankind's God-given capacity to build.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

Let him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently to build one for himself

You must build on the resources represented by our young professionals and by our nation's farmers. Without their involvement we cannot succeed. With their involvement we cannot fail.

A third quality that I observed in Dr Sarabhai, and which I have tried to incorporate in my own way of working, was an ability to build teams.

We don't just build on successes, we also build on failures.