I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we’ve been born once already (which we know we have) why then is it so hard for some to believe that we’ve been born before? The answer to that is nothing other than the information about life one has previously received.”
Source: This Thing Called Life: Living Your Ultimate Truth
“If we’ve kept God far from us, we might ask how far we are from just about everything else.”
“If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.”
“If we’ve sowed the seeds of good fortune in our unconscious minds, we’ll harvest their fruit when the time comes without fail.”
Source: The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich
“If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.”
“If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”
“If we view feminism as an approach, a way to think about the world, it shifts the focus away from words, towards action. Feminist principles are not something that can be ‘achieved’. They are cultivated through a reflective process that has no end. They grow, change and take shape as we do.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“If we view the person next to us as an obstacle to our goals and fail to realize that they are the goal, we have become the obstacle.”
“If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.”
“If we view the world based on its impact on us, we will forever lose sight of how we might be able to impact it.”
“If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.”
“If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.”
“If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.”
“If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.”
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
Source: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil
“If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.”
Source: Portraits of Devotion
“If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by”
“If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.”
“If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.”
“If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.”
“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
“If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”
“If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.”
“If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we dug into what they're going through in their lives, they're carrying burdens that they don't talk about but they're extremely heavy and painful. And so, one of the secrets of the human condition is that suffering binds people together. And when you go through something agonizing, others who know what you're feeling because they've been through it will so often reach out to you and connect with you, and give you strength and lift you up.”
“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
“If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.”
Source: How to Listen to God
“If we walk steadily and faithfully...God will lift us up to greater things.”
“If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.”
“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.”
“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.”
“If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.”
“If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want... and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!”
Source: The Beast's Garden
“If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.”
Source: The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008
“If we want a circular economy; a permaculture economy - we need to design decay into products and processes as opposed to disposability. Manufacturers should design materials and products to programmatically biodegrade back into an economic ecosystem. This will allow for more efficient upcycling and the cultivation of various business opportunities in the process.”
“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
“If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.”
“If we want a world with greater equality, we need to acknowledge that women are less likely to keep their hands up. We need institutions and individuals to notice and correct for this behavior by encouraging, promoting, and championing more women. And women have to learn to keep their hands up, because when they lower them, even managers with the best intentions might not notice.”
“If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”
Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.”
“If we want an all-volunteer force, the bottom line is that we're going to have to take care of these people who were willing to do what the bulk of people weren't willing to do. Going to war is dangerous - you can get killed doing it. And the question is, Are the American people willing to recognize the sacrifices of these young people?”
“If we want an enjoyable life, try to enjoy whatever we are doing.”
“If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.”
“If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.”
“If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth”
“If we want better global supply chains, there are lots of other things that have to be made better first. We need to be better with equitably including small businesses into global logistics. We need to be better with upcycling, and feedback loops. We need to be better with implementing Blockchain technology. We need to be better with material ecology and designing products for longevity. And so much more.”
“If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.”