Best Built Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.”

“Our European neighbours in France have invested in their infrastructure early and are now reaping the rewards later. This is because wherever high-speed rail has been built between the major cities and economic centres of a country - as in HS2 - it has exceeded demand forecasts.”

“We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.”

“None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.”

“Nintendo looks at every technology. Often times, we look at technology before it really is considered mass-market ready. The original DS had touch screen on a device. First time that a mass market product had touch screen built in.”

“We were the first state in America to open our doors to publicly supported higher education. We had the foresight to create the Research Triangle Park. And through the efforts and sacrifices of all our citizens, we have built a state where anyone would be glad to raise a family.”

“Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.”

“The strongest bull markets I've been in are built on walls of worry.”

“My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.”

“Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.”

“I think that Delhi Metro has made things convenient for people, and we must credit the government for that. The Metro network that they have built in the city without disturbing any infrastructure is amazing.”

“Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it's another reason I'm interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon.”

“In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.”

“Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.”

“As someone who's built business, I take tariffs and their effects very seriously and would only employ such negotiation tools when absolutely necessary.”

“We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.”

“There's so many people who've built America, much greater in sacrifice and contributions than Silicon Valley. There are people who've died for this country. There are people who have marched for civil rights in this country.”

“Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.”

“I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.”

“I have a name in the TV industry, built by hard work of five years.”

“No one's built like me. I play 110% on both ends of the floor.”

“We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.”

“Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and health care and education.”

“In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.”

“If you look at Governor Romney's family, he's been very successful. He's built a great family, very committed to his wife.”

“You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.”

“America was built on her citizens.”

“The Ram Mandir should be built, but it should not be used as an election plank to divide the society and win votes.”

“America was built on hard work and not complaining about stupid junk.”

“There's always an excitement around the Strip whenever something new being built. It was always the biggest and the best hotel or, you know, over-the-top things. And so, family would be coming in from out of town, and it was such a thrill to be showing them this, you know, erupting new volcano or whatever it was.”

“A disciplined and morally upright nation is built by disciplined and morally upright institutions.”

“I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.”

“This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.”

“Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.”

“My boys - T.J. Ward, Aqib Talib, Kayvon Webster, DeMarcus Ware, all those guys - I built very, very close relationships with those guys, and I would like to continue to build that for the rest of my career.”

“When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.”

“Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built with an anti-earthquake technology still employed today, 3,500 years on.”

“Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the camera.”

“We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.”

“TV shows are built on relationships, and it seemed kind of odd to make a show without any relationships in it.”

“Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those.”

“I left India after marriage and built a home in U.K.”

“I'm built different.”

“The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.”

“After about 20 years of the real estate industry - where we had built it up from a little one-off, just five-agent operation - we built that that into a four-office, 65-agent, multimillion-dollar firm. At that point, I relocated to my ranch in eastern Montana and really thought that I was going to spend much of my time in ranching.”

“America's prosperity has been built on cheap fossil fuel energy.”

“On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.”

“I feel just an overwhelming sense of pride of being part of the family that Vichai built and the extended family of Leicester City.”

“I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch effort to save the company. It quickly became a very unstoppable juggernaut.”

“The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.”

“Fear has never built a community. And fear will never build a nation.”

“I heard about Kay Koplovitz from a former colleague who was a part of Springboard Enterprises. I knew that my friend was doing well, the best she'd been since we worked together years ago in Silicon Valley. But she absolutely raved about all the wonderful things Koplovitz had built, so I knew I had to learn more.”

“I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.”

“Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.”

“I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.”

“Modi says he built 850,000 toilets in Bihar one week. That's roughly 1.5 toilets per second. We can't even go to the toilet in that much time.”

“Some people in power prefer to stick by the oppressions that they've built up, and not give women their rights. Why do we have International Women's Day? We should have it every day, but we're still fighting. It almost feels as if women themselves are niche, but for no reason.”

“I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.”

“Like most MPs, I campaigned and voted to remain in the EU. I was concerned that extricating ourselves from a relationship built up over 40 years would be complex and challenging and that the economic cost of increasing friction in our trade with the EU would be high.”

“Obviously, everything that has been built in Silicon Valley is something that a lot of places are trying to mimic, and rightfully so. There's been a lot of amazing companies that have come out of there.”

“Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.”

“In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.”

“I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.”

“I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.”

“The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.”

“There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.”

“I'm not built for public transportation.”

“If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.”

“I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.”

“I am probably the best example of an actor who has built his career on flops.”

“I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on the catwalk. That was my beginning and, hopefully, my legacy.”

“This is the America we know because we built it.”

“I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.”

“Joe Arpaio built a wall. His was a wall of distrust, and when you don't have the trust of the community, you don't have anything. He claimed to be a law-and-order sheriff, but he was really lawlessness and disorder.”

“We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.”

“The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.”

“When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours... you doubt yourself. And your friends make the difference. They become a safety net that come in and say, 'That's not the case.' And the relationships that you've built... come to the fore.”

“In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.”

“People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.”

“The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.”

“In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.”

“I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.”

“As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of Sesame Street that I grew up with that tolerated and embraced diversity in the Northeast, but in fact was built on the foundation of slavery.”

“I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.”

“When you see pictures of Gordie even at 50, you could see he was just a powerful man. You see Patty Marleau and he's built too. He's very durable because he's so strong, very flexible, but ultimately he puts in the work during the offseason. He doesn't take a day off and he's always trying to get better. He never takes a second off.”

“I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.”

“My family and I built my whole career from scratch.”

“In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.”

“Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.”

“You have to understand, everyone's body was built to do something. I was built to do something, and that's how I was built. I think the world is realizing we were promoting one body type, and there have always been many.”

“Sportive fortunes get built day after day, week after week through a healthy lifestyle.”

“As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?”

“When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.”

“My game is kind of built around hitting shots - that's what I take pride in, and it's what separates myself from other guys.”

“You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.”

“Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.”

“I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.”

“I don't miss games. That's not me. That's how I'm built. I want to play.”

“What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.”

“The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.”