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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

True, Friend, Patiently

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

Courage, Down, Speak

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

Work, Reality, Hard

God always takes the simplest way.
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

Time, Knowledge, Mind

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

Reputation, Five, Build

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

Human, Mean, Words

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

Mother, Fool, Woman

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

Knowledge, Ignorance, Realize

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

Marriage, Wedding, Husband

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

Power, Win, Down

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Living

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

Dreams, Reality, Effort

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

Mind, Sometimes, Week

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

Between, Difference, Tax

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

Good, Three, Speech

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

Religion, Help, Practical

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings

Courage, Become, Grow

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

Mind, Greatest, Brain

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Bad, Lose

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

Life, Change, Power

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

Time, Good, Men

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

Good, Wise, Fool

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

Good, Bad, Stupidity

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
Tom DeLay

Family, Care, Woman

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

Positive, Thought, Thoughts

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

Wish, Energy, Plan

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

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

Money, Live, Job

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

Happiness, God, Everything

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