I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.”
“If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.”
“If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changing
circumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.”
“If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.”
“If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.”
“If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.”
“If you move forward with the storm behind you, you will go very fast, but just like the leaf that moves fast with the wind behind it, you will never get stronger! Walk against the storm, walk against the crowd, against established ideas, swim against giant waves, this is what will make you strong!”
“If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.”
“If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.”
“If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.”
“If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.”
“If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“If you must be a slave to something, make it Scrabble or knitting or casserole cookery. Anything but fashion, where you must be the mistress of your fate.”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“If you must be blind, be blind in tolerance.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.”
“If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.”
“If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.”
Source: The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
“If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another mind in place of your own and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out”
“If you must believe your thoughts, at least choose ones that elevate you, that set you free, that help you soar. Change your mind, change your reality.”
Source: The Realm of Radiance: A Modern Fable
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
“If you must catch, you must not fear what is being thrown.”
“If you must change, let your heart grow gentler and your soul even more beautiful.”
“If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.”
“If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.”
“If you must choose between your beliefs or behavior; always choose behavior.”
“If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.”
“If you must compromise, compromise up.”
“If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.”
Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps
“If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!”
“If you must fight someday, allow me to advise you about one thing: do not fight in anger.”
Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold
“If you must fight this thing, there's no reason to go alone. You could take a battalion of knights or, failing that, me.'
'You think you're the equal of a battalion of knights?' she asks with a smile.
He might be, he supposes, although there's no telling how the mortal world will affect his magic. He did once raise an isle from the bottom of the sea. He wonders if he ought to remind her of that, wonders if she had been impressed. 'I believe that I could easily best all of them combined, in a suitable contest. Perhaps one involving drink.'
She kicks her ragwort steed forward with a laugh.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“If you must flie, flie well.”
“If you must go nowhere, step out.”
“If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive.”
“If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.”
“If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.”
“If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world.”
“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.”
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.”
“If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?”
Source: Collected Works
“If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.”
“If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.”
“If you must lose, then lose with style...”
“If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo