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 take apart a machine and assemble it back again, you have mastered that machine. If you have fallen apart and pulled yourself back together, you have mastered yourself.”
“If you can take effective action, do so. If you can't, then make room for your discomfort, de-fuse from your worries, and engage in doing something meaningful, here, and now.”
Source: The Confidence Gap
“If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.”
“If you can take it, you can make it.”
“If you can take on anything life throws at you, you can easily uplift yourself and take on the world.”
“If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.”
“If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.”
“If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take.”
“If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.”
“If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly doing one single thing in a day, you will be amazed how best you will become in that thing after a given number of years.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.”
“If you can talk about it, why paint it?”
“If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify.”
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem”
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
“If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.”
“If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.”
Source: Home of the Brave
“If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!”
“If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.”
“If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.”
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”
“If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If you can the conquer the world within, you can easily conquer the world outside.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“If you can think about it, you can achieve it. The difference between your thought and achievement are your self-doubt, and fear of failure. The longer you will take to start, the longer you will take to reach your destination. Seeds of everything that we see around were first sown in the mind.”
“If you can think about it, you can work on it, and if you can work on it, you can achieve it. Keep your focus and effort on your dreams until you succeed.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“If you can think about it, you can create it.”
“If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”
Source: The Secret
“If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.”
“If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.”
“If you can think it, you can do it”
Source: My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography
“If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.”
“If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, with pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it's probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we're here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious.”
“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it”
“If you can think of your lover in six senses, then I'd say you're nailed. They've got themselves wrapped around your heart. And your cock. (...) Six senses? (...) Sight, sound, taste, scent, touch, and the other, that thing you can't figure out that means everything.”
Source: Losing Me, Finding You
“If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.”
“If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.”
“If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.”
“If you can time your attack, then you can certainly win.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“If you can tolerate fear and doubt and loneliness… Winning would like a word with you.”
Source: Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
“If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.”
Source: F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
“If you can touch the fires of my dreams without being burned, it means you're a little closer to seeing the inside of my mind. - The Malwatch”
“If you can touch your dreams very powerfully in your mind, sooner or later you will really touch them in the reality world!”
“If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?”
“If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.”
“If you can truly flip the switch from surprised, overwhelmed, and terrified to the assault mindset, I can’t teach you much.”
Source: Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence
“If you can trust a man's word; you can trust the man.”