Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
In each moment, you have a choice where you can build yourself up or tear yourself down, and choosing to build yourself up is always within your power.
That happens to everybody who rises up in stature: They build you up and then they start trying to tear you down.
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.
I'm very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.
We all acknowledge there are some things that need to be torn down and removed, but it seems to me that a leader who removes something must be able to recognize the necessity of replacing it with something that is effective and sustainable - so you don't just tear down, you have to build up.
Hillary Clinton is going to build up opportunity. Donald Trump is going to tear it down if he becomes president.
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.
I tend to look at Trump as a real-estate mogul. You look at a building and say, 'I'm just going to tear that down and build up something new.' He's not exactly Mr. Preservationist.
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.