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

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

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

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

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford