It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mohandas Gandhi

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde