I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”
“If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
“If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.”
“If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.”
“If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.”
“If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.”
“If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work”
Source: Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball
“If you aren't willing to have it, you will.”
Source: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
“If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.”
“If you arent focused on success, youre failing.”
“If you aren’t
really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'”
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.”
“If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned to shut it off because the people around you have refused to engage it. Perhaps you’ve had a hardening of the arteries around your soul. I believe the choices we make in our lives and the people and places surrounding us increase the volume of our inner voice, decrease it, or annihilate it entirely.”
Source: If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“If you aren’t practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur.”
“If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.”
“If you argue against reality you will suffer.”
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.”
“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humor or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If you as a man are against abortion... just think if women were against men having balls.
A mans job is to support their decision, accept their decision and respect their decision,”
“If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.”
“If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.”
“If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.”
“If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.”
“If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.”
“If you ask [my brother Frank Shamrock], I smoke crack, I do steroids and I cut myself (to get out of the Kimbo Slice fight). I mean you name it, I've done it -- just ask him.”
“If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of convictions as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith. In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.”
Source: Conservative Texts: An Anthology
“If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.”
“If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”
“If you ask a server for a seriously old wine in my neighborhood, they’ll look at you funny and then bring you a half-finished glass from somebody else’s table.”
“If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.”
Source: Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond
“If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.”
“If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.”
Source: The Writing Life
“If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.”
“If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.”
“If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.”
“If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.”
“If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.”
“If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.”
“If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.”
“If you ask an urban lady what she would pay to her sweepers, the reply is obvious. She would pay a man two thousand rupees and a maiden not more than thousand bucks.”
Source: S
“If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.”
“If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.”
“If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.”