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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

Travel, Wish, Light

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin

Home, Teacher, Homework

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

Trying, Public, Critics

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Sense, Action

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson

End, Through, Try

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley

Mad, Seriously, Bible

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine

God, Find, Others

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim Carrey

Life, Afraid, Either

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.
Michelle Obama

Time, Health, Women

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale

Time, Best, Fear

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
Joel Osteen

Money, God, Mind

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
Bill Hicks

Good, Done, Records

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
Louie Anderson

Hurt, Sorry, Done

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Care, Eyes, Themselves

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Living, Compassion, Ethics

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious

Moral, Alive, Possible

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

God, Try, Speak

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy Garland

Life, Attention, Times

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quite, Task, Sides

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Experience, Two

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama

Down, Against, Might

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.
Peter Drucker

Mistakes, Two, Big

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Done, Cannot

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus

Power, Best, Rest

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Hard, Away

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

Human, Duty, Please

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy

Often, Show, Luck

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
Clint Eastwood

Doubt, Afraid, Show

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

Work, Put, Said

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!
Mitt Romney

Him, Looking, President

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