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 to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.”
“If we want to exist in this universe for millions and billions of years, we must constantly deepen our minds to understand this universe in depth!”
“If we want to expand the hole in our lives left by the absence of God, fill it will everything that won’t.”
“If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say that "we don't have evidence," that "we have to obey the international law", that "we have to go back to the Security Council and the United Nations".”
“If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.”
“If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.”
“If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection
“If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“If we want to get paid what we are worth, we need to look out for ourselves.”
Source: Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job
“If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we're going to have to replace President Obama.”
“If we want to get somewhere in life, we have to walk in a straight line (or, at least, a curving, back-and-forth one). We can’t walk in circles, or we will never get anywhere.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction
“If we want to give oxygen and content to our life, let us bypass the flamboyant bells and whistles of shallow pursuits and take delight in the appeasement of the emotional windfalls that crop up when we encounter the ‘others’ and engage in new mental adventures. ("Transcendental journey" )”
“If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.”
“If we want to go Fast than go Alone but if We want to go Far, lets go Together..adopt the "We" spirit..Life isn't all about "Selfie”
“If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.”
“If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.”
Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“If we want to have a fighting chance at changing everything for the better, it’s important we always remember to take care of one another. It’s important that we keep showing up, offering solutions, and simply keep trying.”
Source: Blessed, Beautiful Now: How I Embraced The Present By Celebrating My Past And Learned to Love Life Again
“If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.”
“If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.”
“If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.”
“If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.”
Source: The Problem of Education
“If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.”
“If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.”
“If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001
“If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.”
“If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!”
“If we want to know a civilization, we should discover it’s imagination.”
“If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.”
“If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.”
“If we want to know how God feels about people who are suffering--from poverty, oppression, cancer, or a pandemic--all we need to do is look at Jesus compassionate response. God is on their side.”
Source: Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions
“If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past.”
“If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.”
“If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.”
“If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.”
“If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to
look.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“If we want to let loose and let reality sink in, silence can be a welcoming partner. It becomes a refuge, a sanctuary for peace and clarity. It helps us reset and provides a canvas on which new thoughts and perspectives can emerge. ("When only silence remains")”
“If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny”
“If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.”
“If we want to live in a world that treats us well we have to feed it with kindness, and that starts with us.”
“If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing to what is noble, right and good; treating others with love and compassion...that's when true happiness is experienced. A genuine focus on selflessness cures all and creates an environment for true growth. It's the secret to every great relationship. We gain...when we give up self. Sacrificing one's selfish characteristics through diligent thought, meditation, prayer and action gives life to true love and abounding joy.~Jason Versey”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.”
“If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.”
Source: Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings
“If we want to make Europe stronger, then each country first has to ensure that it becomes stronger itself. This applies to Italy and France, and it applies to Germany as well. Subsequently, we in Europe need to discuss how we can improve the community. That is the correct order.”
“If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are