I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“If you see that your sport is changing, you need to change yourself and think about it and work with people around you who are really smart in what they do, whether as a coach or as a managing director.”
“If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.”
“If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.”
—Zarost”
Source: Second Sight
“If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily groans and disturbance in the hearts of men, wrecking the spiritual ship of the soul or the ship of human society; and pray fervently to the Lord that He may subdue the tempest of sins, as He once subdued the tempest at sea by His word, and that He may root our passions from our hearts, and re-establish in them unceasing tranquility.”
“If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.”
“If you see the Holy Spirit as a power, you will say 'I want more of the Holy Spirit' (especially in time of need). But if you see Him more as a Person, you will say 'I want the Holy Spirit to have more of me.'”
“If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.”
“If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!”
Source: The Truth Is
“If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.”
Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”
“If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.”
“If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.”
“If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.”
“If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.”
“If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you’ll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you’ll find much to be happy and appreciative about.”
Source: The 7 Timeless Habits of Happiness
“If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.”
“If you see the world as foggy, it is not the world that is foggy, it is your mind!”
“If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.”
“If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way.”
Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.”
“If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.”
Source: The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ: And How to Make Them Yours
“If you see this message you must put this on the comment section on 2 different books or else you owe me 5 dollars”
Source: ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine
“If you see those pretty things
that nature likes to show
Remember all those seals that sing
And leave them there to grow.”
Source: Trapper
“If you see to it each day that your conduct is impeccable, the following day will be completely clear, and you will be free to carry out your plans, always vigilant that you leave no loose ends. In this way, each new day will find you free and well disposed.”
“If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two”
“If you see violence, condemn it.”
“If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.”
Source: Tao teh king
“If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.”
“If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.”
“If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.”
“If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.”
“If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.”
“If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.”
“If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".”
“If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.”
“If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.”
Source: Riches Within Your Reach!
“If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.”
“If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.”
“If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.”
“If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.”
“If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.”
“If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.”
Source: The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
“If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.”
“If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.”
Source: Notebooks for an Ethics
“If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for
a walk.”
“If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.”