I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.”
“If you begin dating someone and they tell you they’re not ready for a relationship and you assume that’s something you can change, they’re not playing you. You’re playing yourself.”
“If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.”
“If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“If you begin to ask questions, you will find the answers.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.”
“If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.”
Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?”
Source: For the Roses
“If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.”
“If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.”
“If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.”
“If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.”
“If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.”
“If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons”
“If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.”
“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
Source: Think on these things
“If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.”
“If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.”
“if you begin, you win.”
“If you behave and act according to your heart cooling in life, you have to sit on your knees.”
“If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.”
“If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.”
“If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense
“If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.”
“If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?”
“If you behave like 'Sheep', the other's will eat you. But if you roar like 'Lion', others will afraid of you!”
Source: Beyond Human: Journey Towards A.I World
“If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.”
“If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.”
Source: Jenny Holzer: Truisms And Essays
“If you believe [Steven Lerner] is being honest about what he believes - and I do - it's a fascinating look into the mind-set of the kook, extremist left in this country who are treated sympathetically by the media. Their causes are all just, and so is the notion that capitalism is unfair and that their money has been stolen from them and that the country is unjust - and they need to, you know, economically hobble it.”
“If you believe all those who are urging you to give up are wrong, prove them wrong!”
“If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.”
Source: Children of Dune
“If you believe getting close to being 50 is bad... wait to see how one feels when getting far crom that age”
“If you believe, God exists in every particle of the
universe; if you do not, even the idols in temples are nothing but stone. If you
hold true faith and devotion, He will surely reveal Himself to you.”
Source: Bloody Spell of Death: A Story of Betrayal, Black Magic & Miracles
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use it. Likewise, if you know that we have evolved from the apes through natural selection, then you should also know about the fascinating mental faculty we developed alongside reason, called empathy. Use it.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use it. Likewise, if you know that we have evolved from the apes through natural selection, then you should also know about the fascinating mental faculty we developed alongside reason, called empathy. Use it.
Some might say, it is cowardly of me to not pick any side with confidence. Well, I am a behaviorist after all. You don't expect me to peddle the same old dualistic ideologies that philosophers and theologians have been peddling for centuries, do you - that too with a complete disregard for the necessities of the everyday mind! I want to induce integration in the world, not conversion.
So I say, if you believe in God, make it a reason for assimilation, not segregation. If you prefer reason, use it for warm ascension, not cold and fancy descension.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“If you believe God will never be born on the Earth, it is your foolishness and if you believe God will be born on the Earth only to save you, it is your utter foolishness”
“If you believe growth is possible, you will find ways to make it happen. If you don’t, you will find excuses.”
Source: MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind
“If you believe hard enough and you're too dumb to quit, dreams do come true.”
“If you believe I'm not normal, I'm your special.”
“If you believe in a dream and have the courage to try, anything is possible”
“If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.”
Source: Let Me Be a Woman
“If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.”
“If you believe in an idea that others find radical, don’t let fear keep you from stepping outside of conformity.”
Source: The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success
“If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.”
“If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.”
“If you believe in Christ Jesus, you shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
“If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?”
“If you believe in destiny
and its special magic,
do not ever feel
that the pain you carry
is going to become real.”
Source: Watch For The Exit