I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you're having trouble making yourself happy, try to make someone else happy.”
“If you're heading into a storm, worry a little, but don't worry too much, because when you get there, the storm may be over, but you'll be left with the damage done by worry!”
“If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's”
“If you're holding someone close enough, you can be the shoulder and the crier.”
Source: The Switch
“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.”
“If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on the threshold of eternal darkness, with oneself the only witness.”
Source: The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid
“If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”
“If you're hungry for knowledge then "read" and "study."
For "true satisfaction", practice what you've read, studied, and experienced in your work and life.”
“If you’re hurt, get a closure asap. Once pus collects in the wound, scratching it gives more pleasure than healing it.”
“If you’re ignoring a high percentage of the elements of your entire being, and the range of qualities they can naturally engage, there will be no real recovery or progress until you do. The typical relentless worker is just as lazy as the typical indulgent idler; they’re both just going through the habitual motions. To break the repetitive pattern, and discover more energy and effectiveness, one simply must stretch out in all directions, rotating focus and application of the qualities that make up one’s natural versatility.”
Source: Re:
“If you’re in a position to lift someone off the ground;
i. Say nothing about what it cost you to
ii. Don’t remind them that they were once on the ground
iii. Don’t be the one to take them back to the ground”
“If you’re in a relationship and find yourself constantly using “we” instead of “I” - stop. You are more than your relationship.”
“If you're in a rut, do something unexpectedly kind for someone else.
It will lift you up!
- Elisa Udaskin”
Source: Be a Mensch: Unleash Your Power to Be Kind and Help Others
“If you’re in a true union of love you should be becoming more of yourself, which looks closer to the representation of source, it is pure and it is selfless. If you are not becoming more of yourself if you are not growing if you are egoically attached it is not love.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.”
“If you're in an endless tunnel, you don't have to think about where the exit is anymore, you have to build the exit!”
“If you’re in an organization, you have no doubt encountered people problems. Ineffective communication with coworkers, conflict on teams, or a lack of trust—all of which prevent you from focusing on the work at hand. These problems plague every industry, because every industry has people. Even the greatest organizations in the world have people problems.
The funny thing is, though every organization has people problems, most don’t want to talk about them. They ignore these problems and hope they’ll go away on their own. Often it’s because they don’t know where to start. The problems feel overwhelming and complex, and organizations don’t feel prepared to deal with them. So, they don’t.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.”
“If you're in the business of making something, be in the business of making something great”
Source: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“If you're in the habit of listening only to the facts and not the person who expresses them, change your focus - and really listen.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of A Leader- Lunch & Learn
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“If you're in the middle of a monumental and devastating life crisis, hang in there. It'll be over in about an hour. Two hours, tops.”
Source: Life Lessons from Melrose Pl.
“If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music.”
“If you’re in trouble, I swear I will never stop until I get to you,” he called softly.
Sage could’ve pretended she was already gone, but she couldn’t leave without answering.
“I know.”
Source: The Traitor's Kiss
“If you're in wine country, find out where the winemakers eat and go there.”
Source: A Certain Hunger
“If you’re in your thirties, then you should want lots and lots of more research, even at the cost of application, so that the maximum payoff from their efforts kicks in right when your health is deteriorating.”
Source: sciVive
“If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.”
“If you're interested in being a leader and creating change, the most important thing you can offer people is a big story in which they play an important and meaningful role, just like metal did for me. Fail to do that. and you'll lose them to someone who will.”
Source: Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change
“If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.”
“If you’re John Muir you want trees to
live among. If you’re Emily, a garden
will do.
Try to find the right place for yourself.
If you can’t find it, at least dream of it.
When one is alone and lonely, the body
gladly lingers in the wind or the rain,
or splashes into the cold river, or
pushes through the ice-crusted snow.
Anything that touches.
God, or the gods, are invisible, quite
understandable. But holiness is visible,
entirely.”
Source: Felicity
“If you're just the least bit curious about what it would feel like to be a little more alive in your life, it's time to find the loose threads and give them a pull.”
Source: Threads of Me and You: Unravel Your Limits and Weave Growth from Within
“If you’re leading the crowd, the profits you can make are unlimited.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If you’re like me, this has been the happy-unhappy song of your life. You want the bright lights of being somebody, but you don’t necessarily hate who you are.
There’s greatness resident in all of us. We all get a piece of the sky to light up. You already know that. But why doesn’t anyone besides yourself, your bestie, your mum or that teacher from elementary school seem to see it?”
Source: Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts
“If you're like me, you simply want to promote your promote your products and services in a way that's authentic and congruent with who you are.”
Source: The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
“If you're listening, I'm the walrus, too.”
“If you're lonely, touch someone. Chances are, you'd end up travelling together.”
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
“If you’re looking at the weather, it’s shitty, with a chance of shittier.”
Source: The Western Star
“If you’re looking for a good fight, fight to solidify your relationships.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“If you’re looking for a pal, Mr Clough, you can count me out.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning.”
Source: Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
“If you’re looking for an adventure, you should find another vacation. The Faraway Inn is an escape,” Calisa said. “It offers a few days to just breathe. To think, if you want, or not think. To be calm. To heal, if you need to. To have space and quiet.”
Source: The Faraway Inn
“If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.”
“If you're looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for the reason to continue you must fight for it.”
“If you’re looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create true fine art, slaves are a necessity. That’s how the ancient Greeks felt, with slaves working the fields, cooking
their meals, rowing their ships, all the while their citizens, under the Mediterranean Sun, indulged in poetry writing and grappled with
mathematics. That was their idea of fine art.”
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“If you’re looking for inspiration, beauty, magic, love or wonder ... just look at the world around you - it’s brimming with stories waiting to be told, moments that take your breath away, and connections that remind us of what it means to be alive.”
Source: Pervasive WebGPU & WGSL: Graphics & Compute
“If you’re looking for inspiration from Uber’s notorious magic, consider how it took an existing product, used existing technology, and delivered it to existing markets. Yet, its business model remains hard to replicate—and that’s the real magic trick. As the old Silicon Valley saying goes: If you can’t creatively turn $1 into $10, why do you expect to turn $1 million into $10 million?”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“If you're looking for light in the midst of darkness, your only source of direction is enlightenment.”
“If you’re looking for reasons to trust God, you'll find plenty of them in the arguments to trust men.”
“If you're looking for revolutionary social change, you're in the right place.”