Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander Pope

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Robert Orben

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
Dane Cook

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.
J. K. Rowling

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William F. Buckley, Jr.