Top 55 Builder Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I have been a business builder all of my life and I am thrilled to bring my enthusiasm for business to Kynetic.

I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.

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 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.

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.

I’m not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it’s time to rebuild America.

I’m not a public official. I’m a businessman, I’m a builder, I’m a planner.

I think I’d be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction… I’ve always liked making things. I’m quite good with my hands. So I think I’d be quite good at designing new inventions.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there… If you’re working correctly, the feeling doesn’t wander about.

It’s not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.

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.

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.

My father’s father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder’s mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too icy for the mules to climb the hills.

I’m a builder, first and foremost.

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 grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.

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.

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.

I’m not a builder of buildings, I’m a builder of collections.

I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

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.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

I didn’t know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn’t know any arty types.

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.

My dad is a builder, and my mum’s a nurse. They’re just very normal people.

We aim to be the primary creative partner, digital channel implementer, and relationship builder with influencers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gemma Arterton in ‘The Master Builder’ at the Almeida – she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.

I’m not much of a builder in ‘Minecraft,’ so I don’t really understand how much work goes into these big projects. Seeing the flyby videos blows me away, and I have no idea how people do it.

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

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.

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.

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it’s in everyone’s DNA to want to be a builder.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I’m an actor, not a body builder.

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.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

I was a fixer, a builder – an inventor – ever since I can remember.

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types – each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

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.

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.’

Hearing that you fit into someone’s idea of a superhero is a huge confidence builder.

It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what’s great about America, what we’ve done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

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.

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.

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.