Foundation Quotes

Every great thing, every towering structure, every deeply rooted idea, starts with a foundation. It's not the most glittering or obvious part, but it is the most important of all. Without a solid foundation, everything collapses, no matter how beautiful or grand. It is honesty in a relationship, principles in life, knowledge in learning. It is the zero point from which everything originates, and where all strength is anchored.

The following quotes are the roots of those trees that bear fruit: the roots of foundation, strength, and fixed origins.

Quote by Joyce Meyer: Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underg...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a s...
Quote by Lao Tzu: The high must make the low its base....
Quote by Plato: You must base the Wisdom on Love....
Quote by John Updike: All love comes from the family....
Quote by John C. Maxwell: Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality....
Quote by George Orwell: It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Wh...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere....
Quote by Dolly Parton: A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beaut...
Quote by Saint Augustine: You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in heig...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matte...
Quote by Confucius: The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home....
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: Philosophy is the true mother of science....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment....
Quote by Mencius: The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The...
Quote by Mencius: Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others....
Quote by George Washington: To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is ...
Quote by Confucius: Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the ...
Quote by Lao Tzu: Heavy is the root of light....
Quote by Saint Augustine: Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
Quote by Dalai Lama: A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beauty rests on necessities....
Quote by Lao Tzu: All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal...
Quote by Walt Disney: I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sa...
Quote by Socrates: The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender....
Quote by Dalai Lama: The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence....
Quote by Henry Ford: We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did ...
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat....
Quote by Maya Angelou: Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other....
Quote by C.S. Lewis: A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet....
Quote by Plato: The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: No institution will be better than the institutor....
Quote by Dalai Lama: A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life....
Quote by Maya Angelou: Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues....
Quote by Mencius: The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the fam...
Quote by Dalai Lama: Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony....
Quote by Walt Disney: Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America......
Quote by Confucius: Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves....
Quote by Denzel Washington: If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage....
Quote by Lao Tzu: What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out...
Quote by Lao Tzu: A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high ri...
Quote by Confucius: Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance....
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: There never was a good knife made of bad steel....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground....
Quote by Lao Tzu: He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely...
Quote by Lao Tzu: The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master trave...
Quote by Lao Tzu: The noble must make humility his root....
Quote by Woodrow Wilson: You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native ...
Quote by Plato: The beginning is half of the whole....
Quote by Confucius: It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered....
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: Not in opinion but in nature is law founded....