I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.”
Source: Zebulon Pike's Arkansaw Journal: In Search of the Southern Louisiana Purchase Boundary Line (interpreted by His Newly Recovered Maps).
“If success came over night. Then it’ll leave the next morning. Stay inspire and have patience. Because you’ll truly be rewarded.”
“If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.”
“If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.”
“If success has thousand painful tales to tell, why would I yield to hear you say failure.”
“If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.”
“If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“If success is much easier than you think, everyone will become successful in this world. Do you know that success is like a country race? Many people start, but only few people come back live. Everybody in this world gives it a try, but they are not strong enough, so they quit.
Do be like them.”
“If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.”
“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.”
“If success is the destination, failure is the only map worth drawing.”
“If success is the “picture” of what you dream, then enjoy the “trailer” when you fail”
Source: An Ongoing Original
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?”
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.”
“If success was goods, it would have been sold at an exorbitant price; luckily it is not. But the element of rarity remains valid.”
Source: Awareness Intelligence on Success: Consciousness In The New Age Of Thoughts
“If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.”
“If success were to be a room, then SKILL would get your feet at its door, and the secret key combination would be PERSEVERANCE-HARD Work-EXCELLENCE. But beware; you can only be in the room for as long as your CHARACTER would permit.”
“If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.”
“If such a deity exists, it’s me,” Sophronia said, a perverse smile curling her lips.
“No- you’re just insane.”
Sophronia waved aside his words. “Semantics.”
“If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?”
“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”
Source: Rendezvous With Rama
“If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.”
“If such as Thomas a Kempis and Bernard of Clairvaux are generous providers of the occasion of education, rather than reciters of precepts and beliefs, it is because they are seeking to be virtuous and to compose their own lives, rather than worrying that others might be vicious, leading discordant lives. Such teachers do the best that a teacher can do. In their own deliberations, they cast enough light that I may see something by it, if I happen to be looking.”
Source: The Gift of Fire
“If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.”
“If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
“If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.”
Source: The mask of Dimitrios
“If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear then the whole world will stop! Let us all realise this and let us celebrate the workers - these great people who make our world move!”
“If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.”
Source: The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan
“If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.”
“If suffer some misfortune, then think: "The Lord sees my heart, and if it pleases Him, it will be well both for me and and others." And thus your soul will always be at peace. But is someone murmurs, "This is bad, and that is bad," then he will never have peace in his soul, even though he fasts and prays a lot.”
“If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.”
“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
“If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.”
“If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.”
“If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “how do I stop suffering?” but “ why am I suffering for what purpose?”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Biography
“If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.”
“If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.”
Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“If suicide in general is significantly underreported, documenting a suicide as gambling-related is orders of magnitude more difficult. As you well know, gambling addicts are very secretive. Even if a gambler had written a suicide note, and even if gambling was the real cause of their suicide, they probably would not say so.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it, it is like investigating mercury vapor in order to comprehend the nature of vapors.”
“If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?”
“If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“If supernatural life in God's paradise is more important than natural life on earth, then the day you received Jesus Christ is more important than the day you were naturally born. Jon 3:6”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.”
Source: We Shadows
“If superstition enters, the brain is gone.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If supper is served and the Iqama for prayer is proclaimed, start with your supper first”
“If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.”