I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we never chance failure, we can never succeed.”
“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”
Source: Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.”
Source: Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.”
“If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.”
“If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.”
“If we never have enough love, we have more than most.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people
“If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.”
Source: The Last American Man
“If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.”
Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle
“If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.”
“If we never want to look back on the past, we create tension between memory and independence, retrospection and progress. By so doing, we make a radical commitment to the future that becomes a state of unbridled freedom. (“Never looking back again”
“If we no longer insist on our notions of how Nature ought to behave, but instead stand before Nature with an open and receptive mind, we find that common sense often doesn't work. Why not? Because our notions, both hereditary and learned, of how Nature works were forged in the millions of years our ancestors were hunters and gatherers. In this case common sense is a faithless guide because no hunter-gatherer's life ever depended on understanding time-variable electric and magnetic fields. There were no evolutionary penalties for ignorance of Maxwell's equations. In our time it's different.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.”
“If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.”
“If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.”
“If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.”
“If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!”
Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most
“If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“If we obey God, the more we shall know his goodness.”
“If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.”
Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
“If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.”
“If we observe young children, it is clear that they intuitively understand that time spent in play is never time wasted. A lesson that seems to get lost the older we become.”
Source: Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
“If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we don’t have enough to do.”
Source: The Writings of Ron Baratono
“If we offer a prize, so to speak, to anyone who manages to bring a country under his physical control - namely, that they can then sell the country's resources and borrow in its name - then it's not surprising that generals or guerrilla movements will want to compete for this prize. But that the prize is there is really not the fault of the insiders. It is the fault of the dominant states and of the system of international law they maintain.”
“If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.”
“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”
“If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .”
“If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters
“If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.”
“If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.”
Source: The Gone-Away World
“If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
“If we only depend on what people say verbally, we're not even close to understand half of what is really going on. Go deeper!”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.”
“If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.”
“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
“If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.”
“If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.”
“If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.”
“If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.”
“If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.”
“If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.”
“If we only knew the real value of a day.”
“If we only live by the fickle code words of the moment and don’t grasp that today’s truth is not the same as tomorrow’s truth, we remain victims of chronic self-deception. ("Was it all worthwhile?")”
“If we only live through the eyes of the others and don’t try to capture the vibration of our own individual experience, we may miss out the beam and brilliance of authenticity that is essential to move forward in life”