I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.”
“If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.”
“If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.”
“If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.”
“If you detest failure, ensure that you do not fail to chase your dreams and do not cease to learn from life's free university.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you detest shame, run from fame. and if you detest scandal, watch your actions.”
“If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.”
“If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you. You should have faith in God that is the main thing which people don't understand what it means to have faith in God . That He is almighty, He does everything, He looks after everything, why should we worry? This is a very good way of life, is not to worry.”
“If you develop a great friendship with your partner while dating, you have already solved more than half of all the challenges you will face in your marriage with them.”
Source: Dating and Friendship: A New Model For A Lasting Love Relationship
“If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.”
Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
“If you develop an image of success, health, abundance, joy, peace, happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.”
Source: Your Best Life Now for Moms
“If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.”
“If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.”
“If you develop many strong enthusiasms that never seem to last – about a new hobby or career, the possibility of living in a different city or country, buying the latest iPhone – idealization may be at work, especially if the ensuing degree of disappointment is equally intense. If you often find yourself thinking something like Everything could be great if only such-and-such would happen, then you have idealized that future event.”
“If you develop rules, never have more than ten.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”
“If you devote three to six hours of your time every day to practicing anything repeatedly, in the next five years, you will become one of the best in the world.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you devote your life for humanity, you have to clean up first your thoughts, behaviours, and manners to establish neutrality, equality, fairness, justice, and love, second, you only have to focus to help others without personal expectations, desires and any hope of returns.”
“If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.”
“If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.”
“If you devote yourself only to yourself, if your heart strives, above all else, for fame, or money, or power or even happiness, I'm not saying you're a bad person. But you are making a bad choice.
Choose service instead. Not because the world needs you -- it probably doesn't. The world will be fine. And if it won't be fine, you alone can't fix it.
Choose service because there is nothing more insufferable than a talented, driven person who is also completely self-obsessed. Those people are awful. They spend their lives trying to fill a hole and digging it deeper instead. Anyone can be successful. Only service can make you realize how insignificant, and yet how meaningful, your time on earth really is.”
Source: Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
“If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.”
“If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.”
“If you devote yourself to positivity, positivity will devote itself to you.”
“If you devote yourself to someone in the way of secret love, keep in mind that you can hide your affection from the whole world, but you have to be visible with a clear vision and your love feelings to your beloved. Otherwise, you will lose everything and hurt yourself.”
“If you did as much today, as you plan to do tomorrow, you would accomplish a lot.”
Source: Leadership Lessons From Mom
“If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.”
“If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom, and all that stuff. There's this weird politeness that we have, as a society. You don't want to make it hard for anybody.”
“If you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say 'We're the good guys' and do bad-guy things.”
Source: Thud!
“If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?”
“If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.”
Source: The Analects
“If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.”
“If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.”
Source: Ender's Shadow: Book 1 of The Shadow Saga
“If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”
Source: Enchanted
“If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.”
“If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.”
Source: Touched by the Extraordinary, Book Two
“If you did not live to love, what have you live for?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“If you did not love the people while they live, what makes you think you can love them when they are dead?”
“If you did not read the book, you don't know the story.”
“If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.”
Source: The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life
“If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.”
“If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.”
“If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;
Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;
Muffle your false love with some show of blindness;
Let not my sister read it in your eye;
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;
Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;
Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;
Be secret-false.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic
“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”
Source: Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
“If you didn't cried this time While narrating your story' it proves you are healed now :)”
“If you didn't divide it up, carve things into categories, it was all one in the same anyway - waves and oceans, dawns and sunsets, noise and silence. Life was a single connected river that ran through mechanicals, people, animals, planets. Everything that ever was or would be, all mixed together in a soup of being; of shouting and jumping, moving and bumping. Echoes of the great creation.”
Source: Moonlocket