I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.”
“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”
“If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.”
“If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”
“If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.”
“If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire.”
Source: Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
“If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."”
“If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!”
“If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.
That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.”
Source: Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
“If we want human beings to be very successful in this chaotic universe, every living and born human should be given the ambition and determination to achieve that no one else can achieve!”
“If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference”
“If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.”
“If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.”
“If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!”
“If we want more healing and peace in the world, let us each start with our homes, our relationships, our mindsets, and ourselves.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.”
“If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?”
“If we want our children to be independent, to go out and take on the world, we have to give them full confidence that they can come back to us as needed. Autonomy and connection: That’s secure attachment.”
Source: Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”
Source: The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.”
“If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.”
“If we want our men to dance, we have to inspire them. Not with blatant sexuality. That is too common, too little. But with something more, something bigger, something that will give them a reason to want to dance.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“If we want our men to dance, we have to seduce them. But with what? Not with blatant sexuality. That is too common, too little. But with something more, something bigger, something that will give them a reason to want to dance. We have to inspire them.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.”
“If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.”
“If we want peace, we must pray.”
“If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.”
Source: The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results
“If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to them”
Source: Trying to be Muslim
“If we want people to respond to requests (or even demands) for positive change, we must make such requests in a way that honors the dignity of those being challenged while nevertheless raising awareness of the problems they've caused and holding them accountable for those problems. Of course, some people in some situations respond to being shamed by making positive change. However, it is likely that such a response is in spite of, rather than because of, having being shamed. [Powerarchy, p.39]”
Source: Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation
“If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.”
Source: Trusting God
“If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38
“If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.”
“If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.”
“If we want sincere harmony, peace and joy in our lives, we can have them, but we must be willing to do the work. We must make maintaining an awareness of our spiritual natures first in our lives. Our inner world is the architect of our external world. We don't lose faith in the goodness of life because we become angry and depressed. We become angry and depressed because we lose faith in the goodness of life.”
“If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.”
“If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.”
“If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.”
“If we want the lotus bud to appear, it will appear. If we want it to grow, it will grow. When the lotus flower in our heart has grown, wherever we walk the Pure Land appears.”
“If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick
the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a
woman.”
“If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.”
“If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.”
“If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.”
“If we want there to be equity and acceptance, we must learn to trample first our own arrogance.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.”
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
“If we want to access the wisdom in our emotions, we must engage with what we are truly feeling - and not what we would rather be feeling instead.”
“If we want to add human interaction to the panorama of our lifescape, the sustainability and the expectancy description of our emotions are momentous. Cracks in relations can be "restored," whereas breakups have to be "repaired." For 'repairs,' we need proper tools, respectively, concrete commitments, and endurance. For 'restoration,' we need exceptional talent and subtle adroitness to realize a perfect replica of the original emotional canvas. ("Life with sea view")”
“If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.”