foundation

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

The Obama Justice Department has decided to cease the prosecution of the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S.-based front groups, identified as unindicted coconspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case - the largest terrorism finance case in U.S. history.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.