It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart