#Foundation Quotes

“Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.”

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”

“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.”

“Beauty rests on necessities.”

“You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.”

“A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.”

“The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.”

“I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.”

“Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...”

“Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.”

“The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.”

“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.”

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

“You must base the Wisdom on Love.”

“No institution will be better than the institutor.”

“The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.”

“The beginning is half of the whole.”

“To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.”

“Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.”

“The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.”

“Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.”

“States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them”

“He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.”

“A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.”

“The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.”

“The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.”

“Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.”

“In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.”

“What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.”

“Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.”

“In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.”

“Philosophy is the true mother of science.”

“Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.”

“He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.”

“A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.”

“If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.”

“If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.”

“The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.”

“What is well planted will not be uprooted.”

“It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.”

“The noble must make humility his root.”

“The high must make the low its base.”

“Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.”

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

“What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out”

“Heavy is the root of light.”

“Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.”

“Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.”

“Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.”