I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.”
Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
“If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”
“If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.”
Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings
“If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
“If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.”
“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”
“If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.”
“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.”
“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?”
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
Source: Principal Doctrines
“If thou wilt not take as much trouble as that for thy daily bread, thou dost not deserve to have it”
“If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.”
Source: The Following of Christ...
“If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy
“If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.”
“If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]”
“If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.”
Source: Meditations
“If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.”
“If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.”
Source: The Voice of the Silence
“If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.”
“If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.”
“If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.”
“If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.”
“If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.”
“If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
“If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.”
“If, though, the phenotype then encountered an environment richer than expected, the thrifty phenotype might be -mismatched- to the greater abundance. It is this mismatch, it is argued, that has led to the prosperity for adults to develop obesity and other metabolic disorders during adulthood in our contemporary, industrialised environments.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“If thoughts evade us, it may be because we have built a wall to keep them out and ours in.”
“If thousand people say you can't, and you alone believe you can, you will make it happen! But if million people say you can, and you alone believe you can't, you can't make it happen. It all depends on you!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land.”
“if thr r childrn thr mst be a fUtr rt?”
“If threats do not contain opportunities,
they must be destroyed.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.”
“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If through faith you have placed your eternal destiny in the loving hands of Jesus Christ, you can be sure that God is at work, shaping the events and circumstances of your life into a beautiful mosaic that will reveal His Son to the men and women around you. His hand is on you, as it has been since before you were born.”
“If through fear of God you cutoff your own will - inexplicably, for you do not know how this happens - God will give you His will. You will keep it indelibly in your heart, opening the eyes of your mind so that you recognize it; and you will be given the strength to fulfill it. The grace of the Holy Spirit operates these things: without it, nothing is accomplished.”
“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even though life is often like this—the absconding cashier on his way to Nicaragua is killed in a collision at the airport, the prominent statesman dies of a stroke in the midst of the negotiations he has spent years to bring about, the young lovers are drowned in a boating accident the day before their marriage—such events, the warp and woof of everyday life, seem irrelevant, meaningless. They are crude, undigested, unpurged bits of reality—to draw a metaphor from the late J. Edgar Hoover, they are “raw files.” But it is the function of great art to purge and give meaning to human suffering, and so we expect that if the hero is indeed crushed by a bulldozer in Act II there will be some reason for it, and not just some reason but a good one, one which makes sense in terms of the hero’s personality and action. In fact, we expect to be shown that he is in some way responsible for what happens to him.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.”
“If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”