Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
Walt Disney

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

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

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
Robert H. Schuller

It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Mike Ditka