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 alone in your mind, you are surrounded by strangers.”
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”
Source: Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
Source: Notebooks
“If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.”
“If you are already an awakened soul,
Then you must realise
That God has already given you
A supreme task to perform:
He wants you to work
For His Vision's world-blossoms.”
“If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution? If you love the freedom and elegance of simple toons, why encumber yourself with something complicated?
And yet, if we are ever again going to have a world fit and pleasant for little children, we are surely going to have to draw the line where it is not easily drawn. We are going to have to learn to give up things that we have learned (in only a few years, after all) to 'need'.”
Source: Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
“If you are always afraid to be known, you will never understand anyone else. If you never understand anyone else, you'll never be a good Hawk. You'll see what others see, or what they want you to see. You won't see what's there.”
Source: Cast in Secret
“If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.”
“If you are always available and they are never available, then you are available for the wrong person.”
“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”
“If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.”
“If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.”
“If you are always saying I'll do it to tomorrow, than your tomorrow will than turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc.”
“If you are always spending a dollar here and a dollar there, you will never have enough dollars to invest and share.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“If you are always talking about your hardships, do not be surprised if you live in never-ending defeat. You must challenge yourself to stop talking about the problem and start talking about the solution. Use your words to change your situation. Start speaking words of victory.”
Source: Jesus and Coffee: 21 Day Journey to Self-Discovery for the Best of Me
“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
“If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.”
“If you are always trying to do something great and different and fresh, lots of them are going to be shut down for lots of stupid or good reasons, but you have to keep on trying.”
“If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.”
“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.”
“If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.”
“If you are among those who believe that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world - despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary - it's because my fellow spinmeisters and I succeeded brilliantly at what we were paid very well to do with your premium dollars.”
“If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"”
“If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.”
“If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.”
“If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.”
“If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no one is here on earth to serve you. If you respect the principle of self-ownership, you understand that no one else owns you and that you do not own anyone else. Only on this understanding can there be peace on earth and good will among human beings.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
'Lots of planets have a north!”
“If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.”
“If you are an artist and still don't use NFT (Non-Fungible Token), you are potentially missing millions of dollars.”
“If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.”
“If you are an aspiring honey farmer, I have a documentary you NEED to watch. It's called The Beekeeper, and it stars Jason Stratham. It is the Mission Impossible of apiculturist culture.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.”
“If you are an employee, you will always be stuck trading your time for money.”
Source: How To Not Be Broke: Stop Working Just to Pay Bills
“If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .”
“If you are an entrepreneur or starting your own business learn how to sell”
Source: Get To The Top
“If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.”
Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur
“If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!”
“If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.”
“If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.”
Source: All the King's Men
“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”
“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.”
“If you are an individual employed by a corporation or an institution, he said, then the odds are leveraged against you. The larger party always wins. It can't see you, but it can crush you. And if that's the working world, then I don't want to be a part of it.”
Source: Severance
“If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.”
“If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.”
“If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, “I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I’m not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.”
This became my first big fight.
While I consider myself to be fantastically boring, I realized that if I took on my own sexual identity and came out and just told people about it and tried to have a chat with them—tried to be offhand and casual about it—and tried to build our place in society and humanity, then that would be a good mission. This is where I exist in society. I am just this guy. I am transgender, and I exist. But that is just my sexuality. More important than that is that I perform comedy, I perform drama, I run marathons, and I’m an activist in politics. These are the things I do. How you self-identify with your sexuality matters not one wit. What you do in life—what you do to add to the human existence—that is what matters. That is the beautiful thing.”
Source: Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens