I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you are a small business owner, then you are first and foremost a person who sells.”
Source: The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
“If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!”
“If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.”
“if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.”
“If you are a Steve Earle and you're up on a platform and there are people out there listening to you, say something to them. Tell them something valuable. Tell them something they need to know. It doesn't have to be dictatorial, it just has to be informative.”
“If you are a straightforward racing driver you should always see your limits. You have to be objective and not come up with any bullshit.”
“If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.”
Source: Billy Sunday speaks
“If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
“If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!”
“If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.”
Source: White Apples
“If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.”
“If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.”
“If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.”
Source: Celebrating Silence
“If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.”
“If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.”
“If you are a tree, smiles are your flowers. Bloom endlessly.”
“If you are a troublemaker, it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands for – a thoroughly destructive force – we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac.”
“If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“If you are a true fan, you're a fan for one of two reasons. You either support what I do or you support me as a person. If you support what I do, the quality of work speaks for itself. If you support me as a person, my personal and political views won't alienate you. If you find a way to be turned off, that means you were never a fan in the first place. You were just riding the wave.”
“If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.”
Source: Dark Prince: Number 1 in series
“If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!”
“If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.”
Source: Contradictionary
“If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!”
“If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way—who would like to have a set of associations with blacks that are as positive as those that you have with whites—it requires more than a simple commitment to equality. It requires that you change your life so that you are exposed to minorities on a regular basis and become comfortable with them and familiar with the best of their culture, so that when you want to meet, hire, date, or talk with a member of a minority, you aren’t betrayed by your hesitation and discomfort. Taking rapid cognition seriously--acknowledging the incredible power, for good and ill, that first impression play in our lives--requires that we take active steps to manage and control those impressions.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.”
“If you are a wise person, you will learn the power of the ant and the elephant. You will be never overwhelming and surpassing of its length and size when you realize that”
“If you are a wise, you should know how to act foolishly.”
“If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly. (Some people say “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)”
“If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.”
“If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.”
Source: Aggressing the Predatory Lions
“If you are a woman—the flames are seen as too close. The flames of Virginia Woolf.”
Source: Heroines
“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”
“If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry.”
Source: What Happens When Women Walk in Faith: Trusting God Takes You to Amazing Places
“If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.”
“If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.”
“If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.”
“If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art”
“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.”
“If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.”
“If you are a young girl who wants to be a country singer, just don't try to do it too early. Be a high school kid, be a cheerleader, do your thing. And also, just know who you are; know what you want to say and stick with it throughout.”
“If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.”
“If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.”
Source: Yonder Stands Your Orphan
“If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.”
“If you are able to follow your passion by reaching out to as many human beings as possible – and inspire them through your experience, wisdom instinct, and words. “You are truly blessed”
“If you are able to forget yourself, you will know you would not be forgotten!”
“If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.”
Source: Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions