God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy