Welcome to the world of inspirational and thought-provoking quotes about building. Whether you’re embarking on a construction project, working towards personal growth, or seeking motivation to overcome obstacles, the power of words can be a valuable source of guidance and encouragement. On this page, we’ve curated a collection of quotes that revolve around the theme of building. These words of wisdom come from a variety of sources and touch upon different aspects of building, whether it’s constructing physical structures, fostering relationships, or building a better future.
Feel free to explore these quotes and find the ones that resonate with you the most. You can use them as a source of inspiration, share them with others, or incorporate them into your creative projects. Whether you want to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts, the choice is yours. Let these quotes on building serve as a source of motivation and guidance as you embark on your own journey of growth and creation. Now, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of building quotes below.
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors. Louis XIV
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child’s life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole. Novak Djokovic
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster. Bo Bennett
Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. Barbara Bush
Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself. Naval Ravikant
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams. Robert A. M. Stern
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. Henry Cloud
Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. Eknath Easwaran
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. Bono
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial. Martin Filler
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water. Manoj Bhargava
I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, ‘That’s real work.’ Liam Neeson
You know, at the end of the day, all you can do is work at it, perfect your craft, come in with a great attitude and just respect everybody in the building. Tyler Herro
I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don’t need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids. Mohamed Al-Fayed
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Frank Lloyd Wright
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. T. D. Jakes
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know. Angela Duckworth
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller
Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building. John Osborne
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen
True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. Myles Munroe
I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. Neri Oxman
Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development. Kim Jong-un
Protein is crucial to supplying muscle tissue with the building blocks it needs for its growth. Dorian Yates
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself. James E. Casey
We’ve learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a team, unity aboard that space station, we can accomplish great things. Gene Kranz
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier. Susan Lieberman
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Havelock Ellis
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. Dave Barry
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment. Walt Disney
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth. Robert Kiyosaki
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages. Rosa Parks
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. Aristophanes
It’s just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy. Dale Earnhardt
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. John Muir
When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. Jeff Bezos
Bodybuilding is about building your body. Whether you do it to maintain your fitness levels, climb Everest, run the marathon, or be a competitive bodybuilder is up to you. Ronnie Coleman
To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. Martha Graham
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Frank Zappa
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future. Lil Wayne
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. Warren Farrell
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. Tom Peters
Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does. Warren Buffett
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI
We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society. Ruby Bridges
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there. Prince
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. David Allan Coe
There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success. Amy Morin
What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating. Santiago Calatrava
Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it. Joseph Brodsky
We have to realize we are building a movement. Dorothy Height
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don’t have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It’s always the people who make things happen. Corazon Aquino
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan
The building’s identity resided in the ornament. Louis Sullivan
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel. Pope Francis
The future doesn’t just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time. Hannah Fry
Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. Keanu Reeves
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, ‘What are you doing this Saturday?’ and they’ll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, ‘Man, I’m really into remote-controlled steamboats.’ Jack White
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend. George W. Bush
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. Ban Ki-moon
I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves access to a good public education, no matter their zip code. Tony Evers
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. Freeman Dyson
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges. Vicente Fox
We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public’s confidence in alternate political leaders. Pritam Singh
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. Kerry Stokes
Best and I worked in the sub-basement of the old medical building day and night. Time, meals, sleep – all were of secondary consideration. We had to get insulin into a form that was refined enough for continued clinical use. Frederick Banting
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help. David M. Kelley
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now. Mark Zuckerberg
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen. Jackson Pollock
Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It’s a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City. Jesse L. Martin
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere. Mel Gibson
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses. Daniel H. Pink
Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels. Ron White
When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don’t think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, ‘Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!’ Mike Leach
So I rang up a local building firm, I said ‘I want a skip outside my house.’ He said ‘I’m not stopping you.’ Tim Vine
Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision. Erik Voorhees
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. Ayn Rand
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use. Peter Zumthor
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you’ll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? Jeremy Renner
Throughout life, you keep exercising your faith, so when you get into different challenges, you decide, ‘this time I’m going to trust God,’ and God comes through for you. That’s how it kept building and building for me, so I can be confident and go into places knowing that God’s got me. That’s why a lot of times I can be fearless. Bukayo Saka
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people. Donna Karan
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. Bayard Rustin
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. Terence McKenna
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won’t let me do. Like they won’t set fire to me. They won’t like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it’s just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I’d say I do probably 75% of my stuff. Alex O’Loughlin
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. Helmut Jahn
Your legal career is but a means to an end, and… that end is building the kingdom of God. Amy Coney Barrett
I’m already used to being a target, so I’m building a castle with the stones people throw at me. Cris Cyborg
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America. Zig Ziglar
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it’s a career, family, life – you have to plan it out. Ice Cube
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same. Rem Koolhaas
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. Bob Nelson
Education is all a matter of building bridges. Ralph Ellison
I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. Adam Savage
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. Thomas a Kempis
