Basis Quotes

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy

Fitness, Important, Creative

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

Human, Personal, Obstacles

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
Dalai Lama

Volunteer, Dalai, Lama

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Family, Seen

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Morality, Substance

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

Optimism, Terror, Sheer

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington

Government, Political, System

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Government, May, Down

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
Nelson Mandela

Political, Vote, Franchise

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong

Understand, Desire, Wonder

I still work out on a daily basis.
Clint Eastwood

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion, Morality

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine

Science, Cannot, Universe

Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle

Wonder, Worship

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman

Political, American, Choose

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Abuse, Argument

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde

Emotional, Joy, Between

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Robert Mugabe

Equality, Happen, Country

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics, Almost, Shared

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Love, Best, Society

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
Robert Baden-Powell

Trust, Training, Moral

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
Denzel Washington

Daily, Someone, Learn

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Ellen G. White

God, Earth, Bible

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Working, Lives

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana

Happiness, Character, Sanction

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust

Love, Person, Thought

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi

Power, Human, Progress

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel Washington

Black, Proud, Question

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

Progress, Protection, Consumer

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey

History, Old, Logical

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