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 going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.”
“If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.”
“If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.”
Source: Elsewhere
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
“If you are going to get lost, get lost in a paradise, then you will always be surrounded by beauty wherever you are!”
“If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted
elegantly.”
“If you are going to go crazy, go inconveniently crazy.”
“If you are going to go through hell, keep going”
“If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?”
Source: You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life
“If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.”
“If you are going to have an adventure around the world, it really helps if you can get it by working for international employers.”
“If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.”
“If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.”
“If you are going to have, you need to be willing to lose.”
“If you are going to hear the work of the world’s greatest composers, you will have to allow for a little murder here and there. […] Those who want justice can go to the police, but those who want something a little more interesting should go to the orchestra!”
Source: The Composer Is Dead
“If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and He said it very clear in Scripture: He created man to have to dominion over earth. He wanted to establish man's authority on earth to represent heaven on earth, and most of our theological philosophy is completely opposite of that.”
“If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“If you are going to judge, judge yourself first. That way, you can see better to judge others, and prevent shame upon thyself.”
“If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.”
“If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.”
“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
“If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.”
“If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied. I always say to teachers, for goodness sake, take the kids out first to look at the stars in order to understand infinity.”
“If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned.”
“If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.”
“If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.”
“If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.”
Source: Back Story
“If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.”
“If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.”
“If you are going to make something forever, you should be yourself.”
“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.”
Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games
“If you are going to mess around with the various forms of radiation, you had better make sure that you know how to diagnose and treat radiation sickness.”
“If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.”
“If you are going to quit after a couple of steps, you aren’t going to be the best you can ever be.”
Source: Become a Better You
“If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.”
“If you are going to research moonlight exposure during sleep, you need to be prepared to turn into a werewolf on a full moon!”
“If you are going to say you are sorry, at least finish the sentence!”
Source: Please Don't Say You're Sorry: An Empowering Perspective on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce from a Marriage-Loving Divorce Attorney
“If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.”
“if you are going to serve me, you must trust me.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.”
“If you are going to share something with a person, first look on their social media accounts and see how they have handled other people trust. If someone has shared the secrets of others, they will share yours.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”
“If you are going to speak out against injustice, if you are angry at ungodliness in the society, then you have the opposing force to contend against.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If you are going to spend for one group, you have to spend the same for every group, just like if you tax one group you have to tax everybody. You have to go back to having more general laws, more general taxes and more general spending programs.”
“If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.”
“If you are going to stop the world you must claim your power, but no man can claim his power if he feels unworthy of it.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail”
“If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.”