| "Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking." »Tim McMahon |
| "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." »Margot Fonteyn |
| "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius." »George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
| "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'hold on'" »Rudyard Kipling |
| "Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner |
| "hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti |
| "If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." »Sir Walter Besant |
| "Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." »Unknown |
| "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison |
| "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain |
| "If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst." »Thomas Hardy |
| "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse |
| "It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill |
| "You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France |
| "The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." »Shakti Gawain |
| "You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people." »Melissa Timberman |
| "The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step." »Unknown |
| "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior." »Francis Bacon |
| "By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." »Anatole France |
| "I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport |
| "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." »Aldous Huxley |
| "I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets." »Dennis Martin |
| "I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't." »Dodie Smith |
| "When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break." »Akhenaton |
| "At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me." »Barnaby C. Keeney |
| "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
