I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.”
“I have learned that I am enough... I have learned that no one else can LOVE ME - FOR ME.”
“I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!”
Source: Stop the World and Get Off
“I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.”
Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.”
“I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.”
“I have learned that if you fake your life it will kill you slowly, terribly and cause the most pain for everyone. You try to do the right thing, not hurt anyone, conform to what love is supposed to be and what it is supposed to look like, but in the end it destroys you. It eats away at your heart and soul like acid. You slowly destroy those around you that you say you love, and you slowly destroy yourself.”
Source: The Naked Husband
“I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.”
“I have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually.”
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.”
Source: West with the Night
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
“I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.”
“I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.”
“I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.”
Source: A Way of Being
“I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.”
“I have learned, that in this life, you must always be your own advocate. We yearn for someone to always be on our side, to always trust us, to always believe us and believe in us, regardless of the world and everything in it! But the reality of life proves that the majority of people are only capable of a shallow love. They will only advocate you as much as you advocate yourself. They are admirers who have fallen into adoration of your own publication of yourself and once that image begins to shake and quiver? Their "love" shakes and quivers, too. Very seldom will you find someone who will love the way that you tremble. And yet, this is the only type of love that is ever even true! If you are not loved for the way that you tremble and the way that you come unhinged, then you are not even loved at all.”
“I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“I have learned that it is no one elses job to take care of me but me.”
“I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.”
“I have learned that knowing where you're going means remembering where you've been.”
Source: Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone
“I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.”
Source: Married by Midnight: Pembroke Palace Novella
“I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.”
“I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety of people and denominational perspectives. I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become.”
“I have learned that my assignment is to write books for people who do not like to read books. I really try to connect with people who are not given to spending a lot of time with an open book. Pay day to me is when somebody comes up to me and says, "I never read books but I read yours." I have a heart for that person.”
“I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?”
“I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.”
“I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.”
Source: The Areas of My Expertise
“I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.”
Source: Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings
“I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.”
Source: The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan
“I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.”
Source: What I Believe
“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
“I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.”
“I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.”
“I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them”
“I have learned that people with dual citizenship tend to become a problem in one of the countries they hold citizenship for. They misbehave, engage in mischievous antics, causing chaos and mayhem. They become destroyers and are divisive, causing division. They destroy or start fires, knowing they can run away if the country burns. They are always at the forefront of destroying a country, knowing they have a second home if the country they are in is destroyed. They are not patriotic but are always problematic and forever ungrateful.”
“I have learned that promoters can love you, hate you, then love you again.”
“I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.”
“I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.”
“I have learned that some people don't truly want good things for themselves. Whenever something positive happens, they often sabotage it by becoming greedy, unreasonable, ungrateful, dishonest, selfish, arrogant, liars, or disloyal.”
“I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
Source: An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
“I have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be perceived as dominating and threatening, even if that is not his or her intent.”
Source: India Poems: The Photographs
“I have learned that the conquest of Fate is not by struggling against it, but by acquiescence; that it is often through men that we come to know God; that spiritual courage is of a higher type than physical courage; and that it takes a higher type of courage to fight a losing rather than a winning fight.”
“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.”
Source: The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded
“I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.”
“I have learned that the fear and discomfort around there not being enough money is internal.”
“I have learned that the first step to letting go is to accept the facts.”