I Quotes
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“If a man devote himself to seek holiness of faith, he will find the joy of happiness.”
“If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.”
“If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities”
“If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.”
“If a man die, shall he live again?”
“If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.”
Source: Full House
“If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.”
“If a man do not work hard to overcome his hardships, how could he discover the latent force hidden deep within himself?”
“If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
“If a man does not accept
your way of being, change - of man.”
“If a man does not argue with the thoughts that the enemy secretly sows in us, but by prayer to God uproots conversation with them, this is a sign that his mind has attained wisdom, and that he has found a short path.”
“If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.”
Source: Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy
“If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.”
Source: True bills
“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.”
“If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.”
“If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.”
“If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.”
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
“If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.”
“If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”
“If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?”
“If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“If a man doesn’t ask you to marry him -- or at least live with him -- after two years, he never will. It means he’s only interested in having a good time.”
Source: Summer and the City
“If a man doesn't have his family that man has nothing. There's an absolute truth, true meaning in life, and that's a man and his family.”
“If a man doesn't make you feel safe, it's not a man.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.”
“If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be”
“If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.”
“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
“If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.”
“If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.”
“If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.”
“If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”
“If a man ever seeks to obtain mercy, he must ask his Maker.”
“If a man expects a woman to be an angel in his life, he must first create heaven for her. Angels don’t live in hell.”
“If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If a man feels wicked, I cannot see why he should suddenly feel good because somebody tells him that his ancestors once had tails. Man's primary purity and innocence may have dropped off with his tail, for all anybody knows. The only thing we all know about that primary purity and innocence is that we have not got it. Nothing can be, in the strictest sense of the word, more comic than to set so shadowy a thing as the conjectures made by the vaguer anthropologists about primitive man against so solid a thing as the human sense of sin. By its nature the evidence of Eden is something that one cannot find. By its nature the evidence of sin is something that one cannot help finding.”
Source: All Things Considered
“If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds--a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.”
Source: The Just And The Unjust: A Gripping Crime Mystery – Classic Police Drama in a Small-Town Murder Trial
“If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.”
“If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.”
Source: The Gospel of John
“If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone.”
“If a man from medieval times could have seen this red-lit city, and the beings moving through it, he would certainly have believed himself in Hell. Even Jan, for all his curiosity and scientific detachment, found himself on the verge of unreasoning terror. The absence of a single familiar reference point can be utterly unnerving even to the coolest and clearest of minds.”
Source: Childhood’s End
“If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.”
Source: Moody's Stories: Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations