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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Inspirational Opportunity Door Knock

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Work Hope Time You

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Moving On Time Failure You

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

Work Violence Down House

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin

Good Lose Reputation Bad Good Deeds

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

You People World Reality

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

Parenting Men Children Broken

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Enough Walls Bridges Many Too

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

You Place Someone Building

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Hope Time Man Energy

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing Stone Sand Must Were

We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

End Welfare Border Fence

One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.

Work People Humble Pain

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Best Sacrifice Friends White

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Inspirational Stars Who Low Too

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Partner Bridge Artist See

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Singing Training Child Reading

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield

Life Good You Regret

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death Sun Great Cold

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path World Better Door Will

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

Man Together Moon Youth

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill

Day Single Slow Destroy

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Benjamin Franklin

You Live Temporary Two

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage Fear Back Flood Must

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Man Truth Wise Self

I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

Best You Name Nobody

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