Builder Quotes

Builder Quotes by Aristotle, Sarah Beeny, Joel Salatin, Eddie the Eagle, Tech N9ne, John F. Kennedy and many others.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.
I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.
I’m a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
My brother works at Weetabix in Kettering. That was taken over, there were redundancies. My other brother is a builder who has lost jobs, lost work. Football is not immune from that, it just happens to be in more of a spotlight.
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a ‘builder-upper.
China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.
Success is the best builder of character.
Our economy is broken. I’m not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it’s time to rebuild America.
For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
Bernard Rudofsky
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
I’m kind of a builder of institutions. I think I’ve got some ability to look at what’s out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
I don’t approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying “Shucks, I ain’t no actor – I’m just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.” If they aren’t actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and I to study. This is where I get my work ethic from. This is also the source of my generosity and willingness to help.
I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there
Felix Sabates
For me, the day does not begin without a very strong cup of builder’s tea.
We do not recognize the right of the Palestinian Arabs to rule the country, since Palestine is still undeveloped and awaits its builders.
It’s the little things you remember. My mam, Sue, would take me to training in a taxi when I was a kid if Dad, who is a builder, had to work on a Saturday morning. You look back at the stuff like that and realise the sacrifices were all worth it.
For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.
Stores don’t order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don’t produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it’s permanent.
Each citizen of India is a nation builder.
There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We’re going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.
AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn’t know when to stop at a good story.
I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
I never know if I’m the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
I always say, you’re going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.
The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
My dad was a builder, so I didn’t have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn’t want to be a builder.
Some people use things; they destroy. You’re a creator, a builder.
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind – at least that part of it that we can reach – of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
To me, running is therapy. It’s mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It’s also a great release and a great energy builder.
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders – and then you let them do their jobs.
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a storyteller. I write also to become myself, more so day by day. Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.
Eppu Nuotio
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests – but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!
I have been a business builder all of my life and I am thrilled to bring my enthusiasm for business to Kynetic.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
A builder is like a little godsomebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.
My parents both worked – my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder – and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.
In wrestling, you’ve got to be an athlete. You can’t just be a body builder; you can’t just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.
Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.
Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
I acted as a mood builder in ‘Love Rain,’ so I thought it was going to be a similar role in ‘Reply 1997.’ Then I found out it was for the role of Yoon Yoon Jae, so I said no. I didn’t think that I was in the position to take such a cool character.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
Up to the age of five, I wanted to be a builder. My neighbour, a builder called Paddy White, would come in for a cup of tea with my mother. I’d assemble all the pillows together at interesting angles, thinking he would spot my talent at a raw young age and take me on as an apprentice.
I’m involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I’m also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.
Coaches are bridge builders. It’s our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was – and is – a builder in my family.
The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.
We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.
I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.
In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder’s Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.
I was a better builder than a manager. I’d rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
You are the human clay,” Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. “And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.
When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.
There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann’d all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap’d all Worlds and Г†ons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn’t want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.
The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don’t need to be subsidizing PBS. It’s time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with ‘Dora the Explorer‘ and ‘Bob the Builder.’
Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.
Jesus said, ‘Greater things of these you shall do…’ Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.
I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That’s what I intend to do.
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.
I am a big fan of Independiente and I played in their youth systems before being released for being too small, so I went to work with my father as a builder. This helped me understand a lot of things about life; it made me mentally very strong and it also pushed me to go and play for another team.
I’m not a builder of buildings, I’m a builder of collections.
I’m proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn’t an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
Decent cycling clothing today is designed with reflective strips or subtle detailing that is visible under streetlights or in car headlights. You’ll find that you can be seen just as well as you would in a builder’s fluorescent vest.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against gay marriage. He said marriage is a sacred union between a groupie and any number of body builders.
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don’t believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I’ve done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.
Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.
I’ve got a friend who’s a builder, a friend in marketing, a friend who does furniture removals… It’s good to stay grounded like that.
I make bean stalks, I’m A builder, like yourself.
We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.
It was a huge confidence builder to stand in front of 34 21-year-olds and explain something to them every day.
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.
if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser…and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don’t deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.
Virginia Knauer
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ’s glorious body.
I’ve been diagnosed with what’s called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It’s kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don’t allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
The Stone the Builders Rejected.
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
When I was a builder, I drove a blue van. It had a hole in the floor and I couldn’t afford to fix it. I put a concrete block over the hole.
I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.
I’m always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that’s the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body builder.
I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.
I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.
If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.
I’m not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I’m just a corpse who wants not to be.
To be a carpenter or a builder or a home inspector, you have to have that kind of visual brain where you can sort of imagine something taken apart.
As a builder, you don’t get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.
Peter Karmanos, Jr.
It’s not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.
An article in the ‘Moscow Times’ described Trump as the city‘s first grand builder since Stalin.
I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don’t judge either as a complete win or loss.
With wrestling, we’re still athletes. I train like we’re an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
When I create a TV show, it’s so that I can write it. I’m not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people – experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they’re not writing scripts.
I’m a builder, first and foremost.
Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
Forestry is the work of nation builders.
William Bulfin
I’ve been pretty lucky – or slothful – in that I’ve never been a ‘career builder.’ I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that’s left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with ‘Caprica,’ the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world… Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
I don’t expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I’d rather be a builder. I’d like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect’s plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.
I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher.
I’m not into branding – I’m trying to be organic to who I am on every level. I do really connect to being a part of the working class. Those are my roots. My family [consists of] farmers from Portugal, builders, housekeepers and stonemasons.
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
Here’s a little known fact – Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I’m a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night‘s sleep the greatest morale builder … is clothes.
My father’s parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.
I can’t get over the exciting beauty of New York – the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one’s taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
A builder is like a little god – somebody who does things, doesn’t just draw things.
For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which they live.
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
As a nation builder, Nehru was a complete failure.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn’t irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
If I wasn’t doing music, I might have been a builder.
I’m just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I’ve got my dad’s body. Not all of it, thank God.
I’m not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it’s time to rebuild America.
I’m definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that’s interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
One of my brothers is a body builder, and the other is an accountant. Both of them live in Australia, so I rarely get to see them. My sister lives in the U.S.
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.
It is true that you can’t prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect’s plan for a building and the builder’s list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.
Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result
We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
There’s a word the teabaggers have wanted to use since Obama came on the scene, but they can’t because it’s not the 1950s. They would love to say this word. It begins with an N and ends with -er, and it’s not “nation-builder.”
My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn’t talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me.
I’ve always worked on my own home and different places that I’ve owned. I really enjoyed it. But I’m a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.
I’ve been pretty lucky – or slothful – in that I’ve never been a “career builder,” I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that’s left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with “Caprica,” the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.
In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder’s labourer could eat like a king – rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.
The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.
Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more ‘humility training’ than wrestling.
When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.
Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I’m an actor, not a body builder.
I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.