I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.”
“If you deem me as being a fool because I believe in God, I would only have you look around at the chaos and carnage in the world today and ask what kind of fool would believe in men who don’t believe in God?”
“If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.”
“If you default on an unsecured debt, you won't lose anything (except points on your credit score).”
“If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.”
Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
“If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.”
“If you defend, rebound and limit turnovers, you're going to put yourself in a position where you can win games”
“If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.”
“If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.”
“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.”
“If you define transcendence as a moment in which your self fades away and you feel connected to the all, these musically bittersweet moments are the closest I've come to experiencing it. But it's happened over and over again.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“If you define your life by what you learn only, you will never leave a great footprints on earth. Your life must not only be defined by what you do with what you learn but also the great distinctive exploitations you make with the least things you learn.”
Source: Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?
“If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.”
“If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you’ll never earn real trust from your players or employees.”
Source: Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
“If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.”
“If you deliberately and passionately grieve over the consolations of darkness and participate with your spirit in their annihilation, you would put yourself above other forms of life and lives of other people.”
“If you delight in reforms, repent.”
“If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.”
“If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“If you delve into and a part of the political wars, the - as I would call it, the arguing ad infinitum. It never ends, and very few people I've noticed ever change their mind.”
“If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.”
“If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.”
“If you demand recognition for giving — you’re buying something.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.”
“If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.”
Source: H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.”
Source: The Jaguar Hunter
“If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.”
“If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.”
“If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.”
Source: The Truth About Style
“If you deny your shadow it becomes your tyrant.”
Source: The Swallows of Lunetto
“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”
“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.”
“If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.”
“If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.”
“If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.”
“If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.”
“If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.”
“If you deprive yourself of night’s mystery, you will devoid of universe’s mystery too!”
“If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.”
“If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.”
“If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.”
“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
“If you design a compelling future, it’s easier to push yourself because your vision will pull you.”
“If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.”
“If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.”
“If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily.”
“If you desire a major win, spend more time chasing your dreams. Do not be derailed by obstacles or criticisms.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams