We’ve collected the best Take Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Henry Cloud, Kate Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Anatole France, Ben Stein. Use them as an inspiration.
1
2
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
3
4
5
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
6
7
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
8
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
9
If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.
10
11
12
Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.
13
14
15
16
I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother’s a worrier, and I’m a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.
17
18
19
If you’ve got a bazooka, and people know you’ve got it, you may not have to take it out.
20
Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.
21
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
22
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
23
24
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
25
26
We only have one earth. Let’s take care of it.
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
35
36
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
37
38
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
39
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
40
41
42
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
43
The only safe thing is to take a chance.
44
45
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
46
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
47
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
48
49
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
50
Sometimes in life, you’re not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
51
52
53
54
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
55
56
57
58
I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
69
70
You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.
71
72
73
74
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
75
76
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
77
78
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
79
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
80
If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
81
82
Take your job seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.
83
I think my inner child wants to take over the world.
84
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
85
86
87
‘Pathological liar‘ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.
88
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
89
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
90
91
92
93
We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster‘ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
94
95
96
You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irishness out of the man.
97
98
99
I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
100
You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks.
101
102
103
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
104
105
It doesn’t take much to make me angry.
106
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
107
108
When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
109
110
I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,’ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that’s really scary.
111
112
I’ve always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there’s bound to be a report that comes out that says, ‘Broccoli actually… ‘ So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.
113
114
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
115
116
We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.
117
118
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.
119
120
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
121
122
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
123
It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
131
132
133
134
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
135
136
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
137
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
138
If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.
139
140
141
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
142
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
143
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.
144
145
You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn’t an achievement.
146
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
147
148
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
149
150
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
151
152
153
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
154
155
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
156
One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself… to take care of yourself.
157
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
158
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
159
Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.
160
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
161
162
163
164
I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
165
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
166
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
167
168
169
I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
170
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
171
If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.
172
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
173
174
175
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
176
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
177
178
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
179
A dish should have flavor, texture, appearance and smell, but I’m doing it differently. We take Chinese food, play with your sentiments, memories of it, and then take you to the border; you won’t fall over the edge, but you get excitement.
180
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
181
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
182
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
183
184
185
186
187
I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.
188
189
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
190
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
191
192
193
194
Sometimes you will think you can’t take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
195
196
Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you’re only human.
197
198
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
199
200
201
202
203
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
204
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
205
We don’t want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.
206
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
207
208
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
At the end of your life, it’s friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what’s in your bank account. So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.
217
Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.
218
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
219
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
220
221
To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.
222
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
223
My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
224
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion‘s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
225
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
226
227
228
229
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
230
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
231
232
233
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
234
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
235
236
I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I’d kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it’s up to me to get where I want to go, but it’s a lot to take on.
237
God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.
238
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
239
240
I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
241
I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I’ll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you’re going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.
242
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
243
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.’
244
I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.
245
246
247
Money doesn’t buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
248
If you’ve got a problem, take it out on a drum.
249
250
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
251
252
253
So many people are campaigning, fighting, and even dying to make a statement in the name of humanity. These people have no voice that can be heard by many. I wish more celebrities would take the initiative to be that voice.
254
255
256
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
257
258
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it’s a conversation piece.
259
260
I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
261
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
262
I was not in ‘Iron Man 2,’ but I take a daily iron supplement.
263
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
264
You don’t want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can’t enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
265
266
267
268
269
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
270
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
271
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
272
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
273
274
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
275
276
277
278
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
279
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
280
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
281
282
283
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
284
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
285
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
286
When placed in command, take charge.
287
288
289
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.
290
Black and white means photography to me. It’s much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.
291
292
I’m a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
293
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
294
There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
295
296
297
298
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
299
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
300
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
301
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
302
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
303
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person’s plate.
304
305
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
306
307
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
308
You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
309
By patrolling our borders, we can take a proactive stand against human trafficking, violence, terrorism, and illegal immigration from spiraling out of control.
310
311
You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.
312
Personal songs take a little more to record, definitely. We had to bring our souls into the recording studio. It was us being very vulnerable. We heard that our fans can kind of feel that.
313
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
314
315
316
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
317
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
318
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way – that’s the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
319
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
320
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
321
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
322
323
I find that it’s best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
324
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
325
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
326
The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.
327
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
328
329
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.
330
331
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
332
Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise.
333
Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.
334
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
335
Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that’s as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all – humanity was wounded by the genocide.
336
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
337
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
338
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
339
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
340
341
342
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
343
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
344
345
346
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
347
The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.
348
On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you’re alive. You can only live in one day.
349
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
350
351
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
352
When you don’t take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.
353
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
354
355
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
356
Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?
357
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
358
No matter where you stand politically – even if you’re unsure of what your political ideology is – it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
359
The solution as consumers is – perhaps surprisingly – to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them – the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
360
361
362
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
363
364
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
365
366
If I fall, I’ll take the fall and get up and keep going.
367
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
368
369
I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that’s icing on the cake.
370
371
372
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
373
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
374
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
375
376
Pol Pot – he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
377
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
378
The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
379
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.
380
I am very short-sighted, and if I don’t like a situation I take my glasses off.
381
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
382
Take my wife… Please!
383
384
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
385
The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.
386
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
387
388
389
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
390
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
391
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
392
393
394
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
395
396
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
397
Art must take reality by surprise.
398
399
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
400
401
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
402
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
403
We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.
404
At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don’t know how to cherish the freedom we have until it’s taken from us.
405
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
406
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
407
You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
408
You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can’t take the neighborhood out of the guy.
409
410
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
411
I don’t know what it’s like to have a typical father figure. He’s not the dad who’s going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he’s such a motivational person.
412
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
413
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
414
415
Stay focused and stay determined. Don’t look to anyone else to be your determination – have self-determination. It will take you very far.
416
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
417
418
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
419
Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
420
Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
421
422
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
423
I wish they would only take me as I am.
424
425
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
426
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
427
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
428
Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
429
430
I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
431
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
432
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
433
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this… only the best is good enough for a child.
434
435
I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.
436
You’ve got to do what’s right, or what you think is right. And you’ve got to make tough decisions. And you’ve got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
437
438
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
439
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
440
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.
441
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
442
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
443
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
444
445
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
446
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
447
448
I take time to open up with people. But once I know you, I’m fine. I’m a shy person.
449
450
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
451
452
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
453
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
454
455
Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
456
457
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
458
459
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
460
461
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
462
It’s a long journey to become successful, and you learn to grow with it. You grow with the small steps you take.
463
A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.
464
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
465
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
466
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
467
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
468
469
470
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
471
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
472
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
473
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.
474
475
476
477
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
478
479
Don’t take your toys inside just because it’s raining.
480
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
481
482
483
If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
484
485
I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
486
487
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
488
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
489
490
491
492
493
494
Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.
495
496
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
497
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
498
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
499
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life‘s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
500
501
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
502
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
503
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
504
505
506
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
507
508
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
509
Take a walk on the wild side.
510
511
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
512
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
513
514
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
515
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
516
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
517
518
519
520
521
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
522
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
523
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
524
525
There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?
526
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
527
528
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
529
530
531
Women have to harness their power – its absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
532
Never take anything for granted.
533
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
534
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
535
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
536
537
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
538
539
540
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else’s day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.
541
Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.
542
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
543
544
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
545
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.
546
It’s a long road, so we are just trying to stay focused and grounded and keep moving forward. I’ll take it, though.
547
548
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
549
550
551
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
552
When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It’s how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn’t stay loyal to you, they don’t stay your friend for very long.
553
I’m Italian; I take my time. We’re not really fast. We’re very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I’m so curious as to what’s next!
554
555
556
A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they’ve trusted take responsibility, and that is what’s toxic.
557
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
558
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
559
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
560
If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
561
562
If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take.
563
564
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
565
I don’t think it’s healthy to take yourself too seriously.
566
Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
567
My motto in life is ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about.
568
569
570
571
572
Don’t be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.
573
574
I learned how to take other people’s mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.
575
The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
576
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
577
578
579
If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it’s going to be a good song – especially if it’s from the heart.
580
All of us start from zero. We take the right decision and become a hero.
581
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
582
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
583
584
585
On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar – one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You’re out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You’re going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I’ll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.
586
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
587
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
588
589
It’s very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
590
You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
591
592
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
593
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
594
I believe that the real expression of your religious beliefs is shown in the daily pattern of your life, in what you contribute to your surroundings and what you take away without infringing on the rights of other people.
595
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I’ve been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
596
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
597
I could never take orders from anyone.
598
When you’re so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don’t think people recognise or praise consistency enough.
599
I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
600
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
601
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
602
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
603
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
604
My dad said, ‘Go to college and take whatever you want.’ So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, ‘There’s no way I’m taking math and history.’ And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
605
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
606
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
607
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
608
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
609
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
610
611
Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
612
Life is a precious gift – a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.
613
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
614
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
615
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.
616
617
Only humility can take you places.
618
You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
619
Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won’t lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it’s just the character, not me.
620
We have to know how to eat right, train right, and take the right over-the-counter supplements.
621
622
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
623
I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.
624
You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.
625
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
626
627
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
628
There’s a lot of things we go through and we don’t even know why… At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that’s kind of how I take that.
629
I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
630
631
We’ll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
632
Never take counsel of your fears.
633
634
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
635
No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
636
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
637
638
639
640
641
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
642
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
643
644
Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
645
646
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
647
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
648
649
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
650
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
651
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
652
653
I couldn’t ask for better parents. I keep that at the forefront of whatever I do, and every time I feel like I can’t take another step, I see their faces, and that drives me.
654
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
655
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.
656
