All Quotes

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
‐‐ Bruce Lee

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
‐‐ Ina Garten

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.
‐‐ Jim Barksdale

Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
‐‐ Betty White

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
‐‐ Giotto di Bondone

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
‐‐ Ford Frick

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.
‐‐ Moran Atias

Take risks and try new things.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
‐‐ David Packard

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.
‐‐ Bobby Sherman

Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.
‐‐ Julius Schwartz

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
‐‐ Og Mandino

Take the back roads instead of the highways.
‐‐ Minnie Pearl

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
‐‐ Steve Irwin

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
‐‐ Juan Cole

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
‐‐ Burt Lancaster

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
‐‐ Robert Collier

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
‐‐ Uwe Boll

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.
‐‐ Tim Gunn

Take the leap. If you love theater more than anything, take the leap. It's so rich if you give over fully to it; there are no halfers or returnsies in this business - if you don't... There's no way to go other than full tilt with your life and job.
‐‐ Michael Lomenda

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
‐‐ George Herbert Mead

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

Take the time to shop for yourself and cook. All of this is an investment in yourself, and if you're not going to invest time and money in what you put in your body, then what are you going to spend money on? It's kind of the most important thing.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
‐‐ Robert Hass

Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Take the tone of the company you are in.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
‐‐ Maxwell Maltz

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
‐‐ Silius Italicus

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
‐‐ Bruce Lee

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
‐‐ Danica Patrick

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
‐‐ Bob Nelson

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom