Quotes with takes

Quotes 161 till 180 of 377.

• It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

  Alfred N. Whitehead
  English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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• It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  American Author (1906 - 2001)
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• It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

  Robert H. Schuller
  American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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• It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
  

  Thomas Sowell
  American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  E. E. Cummings
   
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• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

  Edward. E. Cummings
  American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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• It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin
  French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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• It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

  Judith Rossner
   
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• It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

  H. Ross Perot
  American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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• It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

  Grap zonder einde (1996)

  David Foster Wallace
  American author (1962 - 2008)
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• It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

  Robert H. Schuller
  American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
  

  Napoleon Hill
  American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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• It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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• It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

  Bart Starr
  American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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• It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

  Rosa Parks
  American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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• It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• do-it-yourself
• intelligence
• considerable
• cleverness
• overpower
• knowledge

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