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 dreaded by many then beware of many.”
“If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.”
“If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.”
“If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.”
“If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.”
“If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!”
“If you are easily fooled, you will be ― by those who aren’t confident enough to play by the rules. And they are almost always the majority.”
“If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.”
“If you are efficient, you will easily have enemies; if you are intelligent, you can devoid enemies.”
“If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor.”
Source: All But Alice
“If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.”
“If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.”
“If you are enduring a cold season, don't underestimate Christ can plant you right where you are at no matter how dirty, beat up, or worthless you may feel. Rest assured, He has strategically placed you in the precise place on earth for such a time as this.”
Source: Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
“If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.”
“If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'”
“If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.”
“If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
“If you are established in the church and focused on Jesus, then you are still among the living”
“If you are ever angry at him, threaten to do something to one of his books, as calling him Fred does nothing.”
Source: Emmeline
“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.”
“If you are ever attacked in the street do not shout 'help!', shout 'Fire!'. People adore fires and always come rushing. Nobody will come if you shout 'help.”
“If you are ever blessed with an opportunity to experience love from a selfless person, keep them close because they are very rare.”
“If you are ever broken in life, do not remain there. Break the barriers and achieve your big dreams regardless.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.”
Source: Journal of Discourses, Volume 9
“If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.”
Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.”
Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“If you are ever feeling lost or unsure of what to do, you can simply retrace the path that brought you there to begin with. Have you ever misplaced something only to find it in short order when you “retraced your steps?” Whether it is an idea, a conversation, or an object, retracing may help you get back on point to re-fortify your position.”
“If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.”
“If you are ever going to become the kind of person who achieves huge amounts of success, you must learn to focus only on what you can control. You can't control the weather. You can't control the thoughts of other people. You can't control the overall economy. However you can control your thoughts, your expectations and your luck.”
Source: The Wheel of Wealth - An Entrepreneur's Action Guide
“If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.”
“If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.”
“If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.”
“If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.”
“If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.”
“If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.”
“If you are ever locked up by the government, you may end up sleeping on the floor next to a non-functional toilet that is leaking fecal matter!”
“If you are ever really down on yourself, the best thing you can do is help someone else, and become outwardly focused.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“If you are ever sad and think that life is hard, remember that you are not alone...”
Source: On Two Feet and Wings
“If you are ever so unlucky as to get close to a real knife fight, it would be useful to keep one fact in mind above all others: the real knife fighter does not wish to engage in a fight.
He doesn’t care who is best with a knife. He only wants to cut you. He will then do anything he can to take you by surprise, attack, and finish you off before you can fight back.”
Source: Hank Reinhardt's Book of Knives: A Practical and Illustrated Guide to Knife Fighting
“If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it.”
“If You are Everything
then who are all these people?
And if I am nothing
what's all this noise about?
You are Totality,
everything is You. Agreed.
Then that which is "other-than-You"-
what is it?
Oh, indeed I know:
Nothing exists but You
...”
Source: Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes
“If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.”
“If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.”
“If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.”
“If you are explaining, you are losing.”
“If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.”
“If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.”
“If you are faced with a lost opportunity, think of the shifting reality and be ready to catch it when it comes your way. This is the way reality functions.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”