I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you truly want job security, don’t count on others, count on yourself.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“If you truly want LOVE to enter your Heart, you HAVE to give a DAMN about what's going on around you!!”
“If you truly want people like me- LGBTQ+ people- to talk about our sexuality and gender less, you can help by making it unnecessary- by dismantling the ignorance and fear in your own hearts and minds, and by learning to embrace and celebrate the beautifully diverse expression of humanity for what it is. And it is good.”
“If you truly want to be loved, you’ve got two options. Search harder, to find someone that loves you as you are. Or, improve who you are. Be more loveable.”
Source: sciVive
“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
“If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.”
“If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.”
Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set
“If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.”
Source: Durarara!!, Vol. 1 (light novel)
“If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.”
Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living
“If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.”
Source: How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
“If you truly want to impress someone, remember points they shared in previous conversations and mention it when you reconnect.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies.”
“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in the goodness of humankind. It's not because I believe God and the rest of the monsters are evil. I only wish to have the capacity to change. To know that we have the ability to take a different direction than the one presented to us. That is more important than good and evil. Than life or death.”
Source: The Crooked God Machine
“If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.”
“If you truly want to make World
unity reality, you must be prepared to sacrifice your tribal and nationalist loyalty, and embrace your global identity.”
“If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.”
“If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living.”
Source: Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
“If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.”
“If you truly want victory, avoid frivolities.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.
- Mitchell translation”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.”
“If you trust that there will always be something even more fun and better, that makes life worth living compared to anything you could possibly imagine, then it's out there, waiting for you to find it. So, follow your heart and be ready to flip at moment's notice if something else presents itself that you think is more fun or more joy-filled. That's the formula for humans. It’s sort of a “World Contest” waiting for you to understand the rules and play with.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“If you trust the universe as a whole, you will feel secure.
If you trust just a part of the universe (a person or a thing), doubt will come along with it. The duality of trust and doubt will make you insecure.”
“If you trust the universe, you can't distrust yourself because you are a part of the universe.”
“If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.”
“If you trust yourself, no one will ever betray you.”
“If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -”
“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
“If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?”
“If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!”
“If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.”
“If you try and fail, make another effort, and
still another...until you succeed.”
Source: Think & Grow Rich
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
“If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!”
Source: Keeping the Moon
“If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.”
“If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.”
“If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.”
“If you try in whatever ways you can to brighten someone's day, to be fair and respectful to everyone, and to grow your network without being "networky", you will be a rockstar. Have a plan, but be willing to deviate from it if awesome opportunities arise. While it's important to think about your future and what you want to be doing in 5 years, don't let that plan be so concrete that you ignore opportunities around you.”
“If you try me, I will make you famous.”
“If you try nothing new, you’ll never know what you’re truly capable of.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.”
“If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.”
“If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.”
“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.”