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 facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.”
“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”
“If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it.”
“If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.”
“If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.”
“If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.”
“If you are feeling anxious, sad or depressed,
chances are you are thinking about something that either happened in the past or something you fear will happen in the future.
Stop your travel in time and bring your thoughts back to the now, you cannot change anything that has either happened or not happened yet.
You can only live in what is happening, and embrace the peace of your current moment.”
“If you are feeling bad, don't jump to conclusions. Don't react to people or situations quickly. Sometimes it's best to let them sit and marinate for awhile. If you've given it a week or so and you still feel like this is an issue that needs to be addressed, go ahead and address it then. You'll have a better handle on your emotions and hopefully you will have used that time to articulate specifically what the issue is so when you communicate with someone about it, you can be better understood.”
Source: A Guide to Thriving With Mental Illness
“If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
“How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“If you are feeling crappy, it is probably because your body has gone toxic.”
“If you are feeling drained, you are using your personal energy, not your divine energy. Instead, allow your divine energy to flow through you and it will energize and uplift you as it will those around you.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .”
Source: The Secret
“If you are feeling helpless, help someone.”
“If you are feeling left behind, that means you need to pick up the pace.”
“If you are feeling lost in Life, celebrate. Because only when you are lost, can you find your true Self and discover true Happiness!”
“If you are feeling low, or trampled, unappreciated, or forgotten...and you are reading this, realize it is an illusion...the hope is real...you are valued...and what lies ahead...is brilliance.”
“If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience. "Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well." "Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt." He looked down at his sleeve, embroidered with white flowers. "Not in your nightshirt, though.”
“If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on.”
“If you are feeling sad it may not just because you are disappointed today; We all have chemical hearts. There is much more going inside than we can imagine by simply living rather than by conscious living.”
“If you are feeling sad or angry, take the time to explore your feelings.”
“If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.”
“If you are feeling stressed out, stop and take 10 deep breaths...it really does help! Then focus your mind on one thing and one thing only; things are only overwhelming when you look at them all at once.”
“If you are feeling that the government is misleading you, you are not alone.”
“If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself. Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you. The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.”
“If you are feeling unhappy in life for any reason and often getting negative results, try this -> start replacing negative thoughts with the positive one, make a plan and act on them. The more positive thoughts you have the more positive and happy your will become and results are bound to be positive sooner or later.-Subodh Gupta author "Stress Management a Holistic approach - 5 steps plan”
Source: Stress Management A Holistic Approach
“If you are female, and conditions are otherwise apt, you are supposed to decide whether you want to become a mother by thinking carefully about whether you really want to have a child of your very own, what it would be like to be a mother, whether this is something you really want and will be happy with, etc. In general, you are supposed to evaluate whether you should have a child largely on the basis of what you think it will be like for you to have a child.”
“If you are fighting a cause and adapting to thinking that does not support your values, morals, family, or country, you will just
become enslaved to the ideology rather than bringing liberation that frees many.”
Source: What Makes You Great?
“If you are fighting "slavery forever" or a modern-day Hitler, everything - including the companion you find yourself in bed with - is a minor detail. It's similar, in many ways, to how evangelical Christians were coaxed by their leaders to set aside the fact that Trump's behavior - the philandering, the alleged sexual assaults, the lying, the cruelty - violated their professed values. To get over all that, they had to cast him, in all seriousness, as the Lord's messy messenger, put on earth to fight God's own doppelganger: the devil. With stakes as high as eternal salvation, what's a little pussy grabbing?”
Source: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house.”
“If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”
“If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.”
“If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.”
“If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.”
Source: The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays
“If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless”
“If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.”
“If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.”
“If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.”
“If you are fond of dressing elegantly, or when you put on your clothes, think of the incorruptible garment of righteousness in which our souls should be arrayed, or of Jesus Christ Who is our spiritual raiment, as it is said: 'For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ' (Gal. 3:27).”
“If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.”
“If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.”
Source: A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.
“If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.”
“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.”
“If you are forced to be really nasty, don't shout; use ridicule instead. Ridicule is argument; and it requires knowledge.!”
Source: Development as Rebellion: A Biography of Julius Nyerere
“If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.”
Source: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
“If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.”
“If you are forgetful of the Lord, you will not pray, and without prayer the soul will not dwell in the love of God, for the grace of the Holy Spirit comes through prayer.”
Source: A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes