I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.”
Source: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.”
Source: Mortal Questions
“If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.”
“If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“If we truly believe in the power of cultural institutions to impact communities and engage authentically with social justice issues, if we believe in museums’ capacity to bring about social change, improve cultural awareness, and even transform the world, than we must also believe that our internal practices have an impact, and must act according to the changes we seek.”
“If we truly believe that every girl in every corner of the globe is worthy of an education as our own daughters and granddaughters are, then we need to deepen our commitment to these efforts.”
“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.”
Source: The Black Banner
“If we truly knew someone's entire life story and all the things they have been through we would drop all jealousy and comparison. We would admire their ability to shine.”
“If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.”
“If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.”
Source: Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished
“If we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious.”
“If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.”
Source: The Ultimate Success in Love
“If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.”
“If we truly love someone, we have to accept them flaws and all”
“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.”
“If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.”
“If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.”
“If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.”
“If we truly want equality for all races, should we not get rid of affirmative action programs that funnel tax funds to people just because of their race?”
“If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend.”
“If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.”
“If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.”
“If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.”
“If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.”
Source: The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening
“If we trust a perfect God, we will trust that His version of us is the best version, and we will want none of the subtracted version we have become.”
Source: Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First
“If we trust our assumptions more than reality
we may fall right off the edge.
One of the more horrifying things I know of is
people driving off a highway in the dead of night
into a chasm, a river, a ravine
where the bridge has collapsed
but the flares and barriers have not yet gone up...
I shudder for the people who drive right off the cliff
assuming a bridge that no longer exists,
assuming the road goes on when it doesn't.
Because how else can you drive?
We must assume the road is there--the bridge is there--
as we drive forward into the unknown.
But we must keep our eyes on the road as well.”
“If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?”
“If we trust that our inner world knows what is needed next, one outcome isn't preferable to another.
It is so easy for us to want healing to pursue a more linear path: Something arises and it would be best if we could stay with that.
There can be a sense of disappointment in therapist, patient, or both if the sensation doesn't return. This might be perceived as a lack in our patient's ability to maintain contact, a reflection of our inadequacy of a therapist, or simply discomfort that the therapy feels stuck.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.”
“If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.”
“If we try to answer the questions relating to God, we will again be faced more with our inherited ideas about the Universe and God than with the reality and essence these terms should represent. Therefore, we should try to enrich and redefine these and many other terms we use. We, human beings, decided that the word (term, idea) God means, and should mean, something inherently different from the Universe. We also decided that the Universe means and should mean something different from God. But, if we, somewhat arbitrarily, determined not only the destiny of these terms and ideas but, based on them, our very conception and perception of what these ideas and terms are supposed to represent, one may ask how much closer these ideas and reasoning have brought us to the truth.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If we try to answer these questions, we will again be faced more with our inherited ideas about the Universe and God than with the reality and essence these terms should represent. Therefore, we should try to enrich and redefine these and many other terms we use. We, human beings, decided that the word (term, idea) God means, and should mean, something inherently different from the Universe. We also decided that the Universe means and should mean something different from God. But, if we, somewhat arbitrarily, determined not only the destiny of these terms and ideas but, based on them, our very conception and perception of what these ideas and terms are supposed to represent, one may ask how much closer these ideas and reasoning have brought us to the truth.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.”
“If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.”
“If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else.”
Source: Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
“If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.”
“If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.”
Source: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
“If we try to hold on to so many things, both real and imaginary, thoughts and emotions, fears, worries and expectations, then we begin to weigh our hearts down and make our minds restless.”
Source: The Restful Mind
“If we try to holding a relationship with limitations, they always leaving us...So, if you don't want to loneliness, then make every one alone.....”
“If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate”
Source: Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967
“If we try to make children fantasize, these fake fantasies, like the ready-made fantasies of TV, will in time drive out most of their true fantasies, the ones that come from their experience in the world and their need to make sense of it and become at home in it.”
Source: How Children Learn
“If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.”
Source: The Toll Bridge
“If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.”
“If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.”
“If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.”
Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
“If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.”
“If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable.”
Source: Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1