I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.”
“If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.”
“If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.”
“If you can connect people, you can create the future.”
“If you can consciously choose your behavior—by focusing on your choices and what you control—you will be more thoughtful, and it will be easier to deal with whatever life throws at you. This book will teach you how.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”
“If you can control the narrative, then you can control the media surrounding your brand.”
“If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.”
“If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.”
“If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.”
Source: Victory
“If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.”
Source: The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates
“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket.”
“If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.”
Source: Andy Warhol's party book
“If you can cope the pride when winning,
then you can confront despair when lose.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If you can count your bank balance then you need to work harder.”
“If you can count your friends - those who will miss you, perhaps shed a tear for you after you conk off - you're one lucky fellow. I guess I am lucky. Then again, who can tell? May be I will have to cut off a finger! For, who knows, in the passage of time, who turns yellow.”
“If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.”
“If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.”
“If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact with it on your own terms. I mean, if you took it to the point where finally you get, say, tactile feedback, so you were wired in in terms of the whole nervous system. The sensorium. You would have the ultimate art form. I mean, any painter would want it, any filmmaker would want access to it you know, any musician would want access to it. It would eliminate the need for the divisions between what we describe as the arts, converting the whole thing to experience.”
“If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you.”
Source: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
“If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.”
“If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out”
“If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.”
“If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.”
“If you can create work that enhances your life...do it! But most people, sadly, lose their lives on their work...unnecessarily.”
“If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer.”
“If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.”
“If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”
Source: The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus
“If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.”
Source: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness
“If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”
“If you can dance daily, you will be motivated to stay determined to do your daily duty.”
“If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.”
“If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!”
“If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you and everyone will be in need of your product.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission”
“If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.”
“If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.”
“If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.”
Source: On
“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
Source: Design is One
“If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.”
“If you can desire it, you can behold it.”
“If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to be in the physical presence of the teacher, although it will always be stronger.”
“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”
Source: You learn by living
“If you can devote your existence to one purpose, to such an extent that you breathe that purpose, dream that purpose and live that purpose, then your mind automatically gets rewired as per your will to serve that purpose.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are”
“If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.”
“If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.”
“If you can direct the power you call up, it can do a lot.”, FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: FADE OMNIBUS (Books 1 through 4)