I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.”
“If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.”
Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga
“If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”
“If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'”
“If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.”
“If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“If you excessively concentrate on a closed door, you may miss the alternative easy entries!”
“If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.”
“If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon.”
“If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!”
“If you exist, you are worthy. That is the law of existence.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.”
“If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.”
“If you expect a penguin to teach you to fly and a camel to teach you to swim, you will live throughout your life without wings and fins”
“If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love for the sheer joy of it, if you meditate for the sheer delight of it and you don`t have any result in mind - you are not goal-oriented - then there comes an emptiness which is positive. You start feeling full. You start feeling, for the first time, that you ARE. Being is felt, and that being is tremendously beautiful, blissful. It is SATCHITANANDA: it is existence, it is consciousness, it is bliss.”
“If you expect disappointment, you won’t be disappointed.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.”
Source: The Analects
“If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.”
“If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.”
Source: The Gift of Past Relationships
“If you expect love, don't forget to love someone.”
“If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.”
Source: The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots
“If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.”
Source: Loderunner
“If you expect me to understand you, you should show understanding towards me too.”
“If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.”
Source: Expect Miracles
“If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success.”
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
Source: Ghostgirl: Homecoming
“If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.”
“If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.”
“If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.”
“If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.”
“If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.”
“If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.”
“If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.”
“If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves. The Chinese didn't go out in the world and beg people to teach Chinese studies or let them teach Chinese studies. The Japanese didn't do that either. People don't beg other people to restore their history; they do it themselves.”
Source: Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution
“If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.”
“If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.”
“If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better”
Source: The Lost Girl
“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
“If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.”
“If you expect the worst from people, that's exactly what you'll get.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.”
Source: Lock and Key
“If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.”
“If you expect to be successful and you expect to raise a family while having a career then you will strive for that; if you strive for it then hopefully you will achieve it. So I think for my own daughter, she's going to grow up with a working mom. One that has had to make some painful choices and face some painful realities.”
“If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.”
“If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.”
“If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!”