Takes Quotes
7738 Takes quotes by 4748 unique authors
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Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
— R C Sproul
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Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
— Thomas Chalmers
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Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression…
— Andrew Solomon
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The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how…
— James C. Collins
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Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make…
— James C. Collins
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He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be…
— LaVell Edwards
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Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once…
— Betty Churcher
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When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed…
— Quentin Bryce
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If…
— Rose Macaulay
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
— Stephen Covey
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It takes 4 weeks for you to notice your body changing, 8 weeks for your friends to notice, & 12 weeks for the rest of…
— Jillian Michaels
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You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were…
— Paul H. Dunn
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Genius points the way, talent takes it.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
— Washington Irving
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Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination…
— George Eliot
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I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
— Unknown Author
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The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing…
— Gordon R. England
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes…
— Ralph Marston
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Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its…
— Fernando Botero
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Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits…
— Henri Poincare
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
— Plutarch
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When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared.
— Rajneesh
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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.
— Janet Burroway
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