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 an ocean, abide in your fullness. Do not diminish for those unready for your depths.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“If you are an outgoing, positive, can-do type of person, I think you'll love calling Charlotte home.”
Source: Moving To Charlotte The Un-Tourist Guide
“If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.”
“If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.”
“If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.”
“If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment. Don't hold anything back. Then put the letter in a drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I've found that anger and pie crusts soften after two days.”
“If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.”
“If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.”
“If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.”
“If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.”
“If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.”
“If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.”
“If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.”
Source: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
“If you are anything like me, that sucks.”
“If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.”
“If you are anything other than humbled in the presence of love, you are not in the presence of love.”
Source: 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
“If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.”
Source: Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy
“If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.”
“If you are arguing with somebody, the root of that argument lies in an inner wound that person gave you. You can’t show that wound because of the fear of being judged or labelled.
So, you create an outer wound at some small thing and start arguing in the hope of rubbing some ice to your inner wound. This leads to more wounds - inner and outer.”
“If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.”
“If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.”
“If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.”
Source: James Buchanan, 1791-1868: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.”
“If you are ashamed of what you have done, then you are truly wrong”
“If you are asked an overly invasive or personal question, you have the right to refuse to answer. Likewise, if you research a professional opportunity and it doesn't feel right, or if you are not being offered payment for your professional services, that may be a sign that you should consider saying no.”
“If you are asked any question by a police officer or a government agent and you realize that it is not in your best interest to answer, you should not mention the Fifth Amendment privilege or tell the police that you wish to exercise your right to avoid incriminating yourself. In this day and age, there is too great a danger that the police and the prosecutor might later persuade the judge to use that statement against you as evidence of your guilt. And if they do, to make matters much worse, you have no guarantee that the FBI agent in your case will not slightly misremember your exact words. [....] Even if the officer gets only a few words wrong, it only takes a slight rewording of the privilege to make it sound like a confession.
So what do you do instead?
Instead mention your Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, and tell the police that you want a lawyer.”
Source: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
“If you are asked to build a castle, don't build it out of sand by the ocean, don't build it out of ice in the middle of summer. Build it with the best materials, with the best design, and with the intention to make it last the passing of time. That castle ought to be your legacy.”
“If you are asking for a big thing - something about marriage, moving, or health, for example - that's when you need the angels the most, but paradoxically that's also when it is the most difficult for you to hear them. When you get stressed and uptight, your communication energies shut down. So, what I like to do is ask the angels for a sign that I'm getting the message right. The prayer I use is, "Angels, let me know whether or not this is true divine guidance. Please give me a clear sign in the physical world that I can easily notice and understand."”
“If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.”
“If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.”
“If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.”
“If you are asking me, am I going to be sort of saying 'oh well 'God's told me to do this and do that' well of course that's not the case.”
“If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.”
Source: Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street
“If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.”
“If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.”
“If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.”
“If you are at all interested in contribution to the conservation of local animals, or in enjoying the wonders of nature right at home, planting one or more oaks is an awfully good way to do those things. - from The Nature of Oaks”
“If you are at all successful in your business, be prepared to never have another good day or bad day at work. There will be so many things - good and bad - happening on any given day that you will be on a roller coaster of highs and lows. If that excites you, then go for it.”
“If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.”
“If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.”
“If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.”
“If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
“If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.”
“If you are at the edge of a precipice, your every step is vital!”
“If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.”
“If you are at the top, or at the position of authority or you are at the position to make or break something of yours or others.
Remember doing good is a choice so is helping people in a way that makes them grow or helps them heal.
Such a way that the wound is healed for which people remember you forever!
On a road to life, one must ride with humility, empathy, and try to be a part of people's success, healing, or growth story.
The world already has the negative so let's now change the way the world has handed over to us and heal what is wounded, repair what is broken, and attach with what is detached.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.”
“If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.”
Source: Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary