1,915 Quotes About Building

India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and many others in the post-independence leadership—though, emphatically, not all within this cohort—deeply believed that the combination of liberal democracy, civic nationalism, and socialist economics was essential to successfully building a modern Indian state.

He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But he didn’t agree. A person isn’t supposed to be your entire world, he said. But he’s wrong. When you love yourself, you love others. When you find yourself, you find others. When you create your world and it’s thriving, you create others. And I built an entire world for him. For us. As he once built for me.

You need to step out to build before God could bless what you are building

Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.

If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity,Purpose, value and integrity

THERE ARE THREE WORLDS. THE ONE YOU ARE LIVING, THE ONE YOU ARE BUILDING AND THE ONE YOU ARE DREAMING. TO SUCCEED AND GROW, EXPERIENCE ALL THESE WORLDS.

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.

I have every expectation that mirrored buildings will be regarded as an architectural cock-up in the future.

If we abandon the past in the pursuit of the future, we’ve left all of the construction materials behind. So, we might show up at the site, but we’re not going to be building anything.