Top 534 Take Quotes

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Don’t take social media seriously. Don’t buy into the hype.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won’t lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it’s just the character, not me.

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

Only humility can take you places.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.

I refused to take no for an answer.

If you don’t take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You’re doing too much, you’re being too much in charge. You’ve got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you’re not doing anything.

Ain’t no point in stopping or slowing down. Ain’t like no ‘A’ight, I’m done with this, now take a break,’ you just keep going.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can’t take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world’s surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.

It’s never too late to get fit; it’s never too late to feel good and confident and change the way you eat and train. Just give it a go and momentum will take you the rest of the way.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm – it’s elation, it’s mood swings, and you’re killing all that when you take the drug.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.