Top 100 All It Takes Quotes
#1. How did it ever come to this?" I asked him. "The same way it always has and - to our great misfortune - probably always will. With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.
Lisa Shearin
#2. But all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes - being in love.
David Sedaris
#3. There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.
Dave Grohl
#4. Love is so powerful that it always wins.
Truth is so powerful that it always wins.
All it takes is Time.
Cat Bauer
#5. Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.
Dan Brown
#6. All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything!
Samuel Colbran
#7. All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
Paris Hilton
#8. All it takes is the right training, and we step out, over the boundaries of our bodies and their limitations.
Lauren Slater
#9. Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
Joy Page
#10. Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.
Selena Gomez
#11. Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
Jimi Hendrix
#12. Collectively, we have all it takes to create a just and peaceful world, but we must work together and share our talents. We all need one another to find happiness within ourselves and within the world.
Craig Kielburger
#13. All it takes is a tradition of demeaning, critical words from the right person. All it takes is nothing from the right person. No interest in you, no words spoken to you, no love. If you are treated as if you do not exist, you will feel shame.
Edward T. Welch
#14. All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it.
Daniel Radcliffe
#16. If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step ... the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
Dale Dauten
#17. All it takes to be a voice against injustice, is to say something against it.
Christina Engela
#18. You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. I believe that everyone is a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change. All we need to do is acknowledge and understand this and then help others to also understand the same. That's all it takes to be a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change.
Jeroninio Almeida
#20. Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
Lysa TerKeurst
#21. People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.
Terry Zwigoff
#22. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.
Nancy Duarte
#23. The message sent to one is truly sent to all because everyone is a "one," and they know that if you treat one that way, all it takes is a change of circumstances and you'll treat them that way, too.
Stephen R. Covey
#24. Sometimes ten seconds is all it takes to change the course of a life. Julia
Elizabeth Camden
#25. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That
Sabahattin Ali
#27. It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.
Kristin Armstrong
#28. A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?
Linda Grant
#29. It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters ... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
Joss Whedon
#30. Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
Ellen Hopkins
#31. You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?
Andy Warhol
#32. All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
Daniel Pennac
#33. The thing about dreams, though, is they usually sound crazy to everyone but you. All it takes is one other person to buy into them to keep you going.
Lopez Lomong
#34. That beast inside you, the one you think is tethered tightly to the post, the one you've tamed with art, love, prayer, meditation: it's barely muzzled. The knot is weak. The post is brittle. All it takes is two words and a siren to cut it loose.
Adrian J. Walker
#35. It doesn't take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an 'us' and a 'them.' And a spark.
Ada Palmer
#36. Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine." He took a giant whiff. "Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?" "Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms." "Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.
Kathy Reichs
#37. Fifteen seconds. That's all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen
Colleen Hoover
#38. Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
Atul Gawande
#39. One bite, Caleb, that's all it will take.' 'Once more inside you could be all it takes,' he whispered in her ear, making her stomach flip. 'Right now, I'm willing to take the risk. Are you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#40. One person. All it takes is one person.
-Severus Snape , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
J.K. Rowling
#41. A moment, that's all it takes to live.
A hope, that's all it takes to believe.
A dream, that's all it takes to wish.
A blink, that's all it takes to lose it all.
Someone
#42. All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.
Rush Limbaugh
#43. For all its amazing strength, our hearts are made of eggshells, and sometimes all it takes is someone you'd almost given up on declaring their love for it to crack wide open
Leisa Rayven
#44. When in doubt, be simple. Your life purpose should be an easy target to conceive sometimes all it takes is a simple act of courage to get you there.
Omar Al-Attas
#45. Funny enough, I sit on my porch all day, wave and smile at everyone. Some of them aren't sure, some smiles right back, some come back later and say; "This morning you made my day, had the best day all week, thank you for that!" Smile and wave, that's all it takes
Martin R. Lemieux
#46. All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.
Jodi Picoult
#47. Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.
Kevin Mitnick
#48. What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.
Thomas Pynchon
#49. Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.
Mitch Albom
#50. All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I am an idea, a something made of nothing, whose time has come to be. Some may even call me Goddess
Terry Pratchett
#51. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. And that's all it takes to make you happy? You kill little kids, then go home and wait until it's time to do it all again? What the hell kind of existence is that?
Brenna Yovanoff
#53. The only one who is responsible for the way your life works out is you. Kamu nggak bisa mengubah masa lalu, tapi kamu bisa bertanggung jawab terhadap masa depan kamu. All it takes is a decision.
Nina Ardianti
#54. As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?
Arabella Weir
#55. I went to bed all happy, thinking maybe a boy liked me. It's stupid that that's all it takes sometimes to make you happy.
Meg Cabot
#56. Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Hazel Rochman
#57. Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.
David Foenkinos
#58. I pound the counter. "One time! A snake peed on me one time!" "That's all it takes, Snake Piss!" Saul shouts from the back. "That's all it takes," Dane says, drumming on the counter and turning to the hipsters as they approach to order.
Daniel Rodrigues-Martin
#59. All it takes is for me to try and not think of Garrett, and suddenly, he's consuming my every idle musing. Picking a radio station? Garrett only listened to NPR. Browsing the refrigerator for orange juice? Garrett likes the pulp style best.
Abby McDonald
#60. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.
Iyanla Vanzant
#61. Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone.
Bette Lee Crosby
#63. Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#64. Writing a very personal journey, but that doesn't mean it has to be a slow one. Sometimes, all it takes is a new way of looking at the problem to change everything.
Rachel Aaron
#65. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston
#67. If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?
Jeffrey Gitomer
#68. It just takes one person, believing in you. It just takes one person, loving on you. That's all it takes to change the world
Emily T. Wierenga
#69. If you come into contact with that rare once in a lifetime opportunity, instantly own it, remember all it takes is a slight pondering moment for a stake to be placed, the opportunity can and will easily be claimed by another.
Victoria Addino
#71. All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
Greg Bear
#72. Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#73. A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.
Deepak Chopra
#74. Timber and relationships are fragile. All it takes is one spark to destroy either of them.
Steven Merle Scott
#75. These devils find a way to get at'cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.
Lil' Kim
#76. All it takes is one step. Just close your eyes and step out over the edge. It'll all be over before you know it
K.C. Wells
#77. Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.
Amish Tripathi
#78. Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.
Robert Kiyosaki
#81. Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole
Keith Richards
#82. thrives on exploration and a change in scenery is often all it takes to rejuvenate a distressed ENFP.
Heidi Priebe
#83. I guess that's the thing about people. We always assume their true personality is the one they show you, but sometimes all it takes is moving them to a new situation and a whole new side comes out. A
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#84. We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
Benji Madden
#85. I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does.
Colin Munroe
#86. Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
Dan Brown
#87. You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#88. You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
Jane Green
#89. All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.
Ralph Ellison
#90. When love is real, even when you can't find it under mountains of hurt feelings and shuttered emotions, it's not really gone. All it takes is finding one new reason to fall in love. Just one, and all the other reasons become clear again.
Amy E. Reichert
#91. Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness.
Asma Naqi
#92. It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
George Gurley
#94. Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
Charlie Chaplin
#95. Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#96. Cassia doesn't like to sort people. I'm all too good at it and I worry I'll grow to like it too much.It's a talent.[...]And all it takes is a misstep or two for that talent to become a liability instead of an asset.
Ally Condie
#98. All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.
Zoe Weil
#99. You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.
A.D. Aliwat
#100. All it takes, is one leap of faith.
EK Dobbins