Takes Quotes
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
- E. Joseph Cossman

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional

Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran

The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour

Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles

You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey

The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter

It takes a big cat to be number 2.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous

If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage,
to put together a family and a home.
- Elizabeth Edwards

It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- Lewis B. Smedes

I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first,
and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
- Red Auerbach

He is a drunkard who takes more than
three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus

I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot
of money even to be defeated.
- Will Rogers

Bold Light of Spirit:
Out of the darkness and into the light,
Open our eyes and behold such a sight.
Brilliance of day takes the place of the night,
Boldness and courage are swords of His Might.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within.
- James A. Baldwin

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss;
volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
- George Santayana

A woman can take care of the family.
It takes a man to provide structure,
to provide stability.
- Tom DeLay

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee, And revery.
The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
- Emily Dickinson

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- Fay Weldon

We all have dreams.
But in order to make dreams come into reality,
it takes an awful lot of determination,
dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
- Jesse Owens

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long
gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic
societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
- Jacques Chirac

The instant formal government is abolished,
society begins to act.
A general association takes place, and common interest
produces common security.
- Thomas Paine

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Thomas Aquinas

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes;
it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for
having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West

It takes vision and courage to create -
it takes faith and courage to prove.
- Owen D. Young

When a thought takes one's breath away,
a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
- Thomas W. Higginson

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

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
- Henry James

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
- Charles Kettering

I've been called many names like perfectionist,
difficult and obsessive.
I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the
details for any artist to be good.
- Barbra Streisand

It takes more than just a good looking body.
You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus

Photography takes an instant out of time,
altering life by holding it still.
- Dorothea Lange

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck