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 broken, you can self-heal and rise again because you are a person, not a thing.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.”
“If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.”
“If you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.”
“If you are busy focusing on falling bricks, you will never realize they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.”
Source: On Becoming Restored
“If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.”
“If you are busy giving your power away to your ego, you will make it very difficult to find yourself and live your truth.”
“If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself”
“If you are called by God, a time will come when He will expect certain fruits from you”
“If you are called by God, the time will come when He expects certain fruits from you”
“If you are called to roll with a jiu-jitsu instructor, rolling means rolling. He may toy with you. He may decline to tap you. But he expects you to do your best to defend yourself and to attack him. When an instructor’s body can no longer do what his mind tells it to, then he does not roll with students in this way, but provides wisdom and leadership appropriate to his rank and age. Students also adjust their intensity level appropriately to the training context. It is not inconceivable that a strong young blue belt could tap Helio Gracie out in 1999. He would pay a high and painful price for the glory of doing it however. There is a reason for age, weight, belt, and gender categories in competitions.”
Source: Jiu-Jitsu in the South Zone, 1997-2008
“If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.”
“If you are called upon to help with the terminal illness of a loved one, the best way is to constantly have in mind the impossibility of a soul being terminal.”
Source: Love Matters
“If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.”
“If you are capable, but not available, nature will raise a person with lesser ability to replace you soon.”
Source: Become a Better You
“If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.”
“If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.”
“If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.”
“If you are capable of understanding the different minds of different worlds, then you will be rewarded with the fate of having different riches of different paths!”
“If you are capable people are happy to play with you.”
“If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.”
“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.”
“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.”
“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.”
“If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.”
“If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!”
“If you are centered, you can move freely.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.”
“If you are choosing to stay stuck in a relationship where you are no longer growing or the person you are in relation with is no longer growing it is important to make the decision on whether or not to change your pivot.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.”
“If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.”
“If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!”
“If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.”
“If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.”
“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.”
“If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how groups of small objects, when they are well arranged, become important and effective. Remember that repetition is a form of emphasis. Collect what you will, but see to it that you arrange your hobby to its best advantage.”
“If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way. - Candice Carpenter Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.”
“If you are committed to the change, you're going to have to sideline the skeptics, or at least keep them under control. There may be a temptation to move them out but skeptics have a value - flagging weaknesses in the plan. Ideally, you will enlist their critical stance by challenging them to find ways to improve the plan as you go forward.”
“If you are committed with all of your being to the pursuit of your dream - to the unearthing of your true self and potential - you will be blinded by the brilliant light that emerges when you are cracked open.”
Source: Surfacing: From the Depths of Self-Doubt to Winning Big & Living Fearlessly
“If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.”
Source: The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
“If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.”
“If you are complaining about the maximum amount of tweets allowed per day, now at 300... the problem might be with you, your messaging, marketing and what ever you are promoting; not Twitter.”
“If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want.
Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.”
Source: How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
“If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.”
Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
“If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.”
“If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!”
“If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.”