I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.”
“If a person acts like a monster too long it ceases to be acting.”
“If a person acts out of character, then there’s one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“If a person argues with you, know they are uncertain.”
“If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.”
Source: The Voyage of the Beagle
“If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.”
Source: How to Reach Your Full Potential for God: Never Settle for Less than His Best
“If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.”
Source: Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words
“If a person believes in the power of sickness more than the power of God, it will be hard for him to receive God’s healing.”
Source: Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
“If a person believes they're good-looking enough, the rest of the world eventually believes it, too.”
Source: All Your Perfects
“If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.”
“If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.”
Source: The First Circle
“If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too.”
Source: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
“If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.”
“If a person cannot deal properly with what he has been given, God will never multiply what he has”
“If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“If a person cannot swim across the river, he must take the bridge. He is not afraid of the water or worried that he may drown. But he takes the bridge out of necessity. It is a fact. To fear or worry over necessities (over facts), stills the mind. The stagnant mind only focuses and refocuses on a single point, without peripheral vision—it ponders danger, but it does not prepare for it. The brave man is not bound immobile with caution or lost scouting the fog of hazard calculating insurmountable variables. His sight and sense is not hindered and he may confront danger upon its arrival. To be brave is not to be careless or headstrong, but to act without expectation.”
“If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)”
“If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them," apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates.”
“If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.”
“If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.”
“If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.”
“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.”
“If a person disregards your feelings, ignores your needs and treats you in a damaging way, distance yourself.”
“If a person do not seek God’s face, all of his merits will be working for evil”
“If a person does not fulfill his calling he will lose purpose in life”
“If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner”
“If a person does not receive the proper nutrition, that individual's body will not grow to its maximal height. Similarly, if one's mind does not receive an educational or informationally-rich diet, so to speak, their mind will not grow to its maximal capacity either.”
Source: The Examined Life: A Journal of Questions and Quotes
“If a person does not satisfy the need to self-actualization, his satisfaction and anxiety increases”
“If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.”
“If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.”
“If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.”
“If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.”
“If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.”
“If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.”
“If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.”
Source: A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David
“If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.”
“If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding for him.”
“If a person forges ahead in the light and yet has lost his care for the others, the purpose of the light is wasted. God does not give us light for its own sake, but for the purpose of doing something in the light.”
“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.”
“If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.”
“If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?”
Source: The Enchiridion
“If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.”
Source: The Chosen
“If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.”
Source: The Law of success: In Sixteen Lessions
“If a person has done wrong, is conscious of what he has done and does not say sorry, I ask God to take him into account. I forgive him, but he does not receive that forgiveness, he is closed to forgiveness. We must forgive, because we were all forgiven. It is another thing to receive that forgiveness.”
“If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.”
“If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.”
“If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life”
“If a person has made it into the inner sanctuary of the heart, where few enter, then I feel they are entitled to life membership which means they will always be loved. At the same time, the relationship, itself, is not entitled to life membership. It must be earned on both sides. A good relationship is a privilege; not an entitlement. One has to prove that one is worthy of the great benefits that come from a truly alive and real partnership.”
Source: Love's Longing
“If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.”