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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac

Difficult, Easy, Getting

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

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.
Tony Robbins

Control, Once, Lives

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Why, Reason

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob Dylan

Care, Cannot, Memories

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Lloyd Banks

Loyalty, Important, Honor

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Evan Bayh

Men, Children, Single

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

Sex, Why, Advice

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
Eminem

Positive, Learning, Problems

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

Love, Takes, Affair

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, Dangerous, Risk

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford

Government, Everything, Give

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Wish

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, God, Human

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Liberal, View

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Marcus Garvey

Good, Black, Here

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Sense, Another

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost

Life, Art, Care

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Dreams, Live

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Work, Live

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

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.
Richard Bach

Mistakes, Learn, Matter

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw

Seriously, Affront

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington

Liberty, Growth, Begins

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Morning, Care, Until

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

Time, Fear, Important

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim Valvano

Mind, Heart, Soul

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn

Time, Experience, Future

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness, Lost, Mean

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