I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.”
“If you want or need to move, move with a winning record of success, move with a plan, and move to something you love.”
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion; and if you want yourself to be happy practice compassion”
Source: The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama, and one of the 72 wisdoms in "72 Wisdoms”
Source: 72 Wisdoms: A practical guide to make life more meaningful
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Source: The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights
“If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.”
“If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.”
“If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.”
Source: The Leader In You
“If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.”
“If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.”
“If you want peace, accept. If you want suffering, expect.”
“If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your
hearts and minds.”
“If you want peace, close your eyes and feel the darkness.”
“If you want peace in life.
Choose to master self control.
Not everything is good for you
and not everyone is good for you.”
“If you want peace, make your worry list your prayer list.: ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio”
“If you want peace, make your worry list your prayer list." ~ MaryAnn Diorio”
“if you want peace of mind. do what you need instead of what you want.”
“If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.”
Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior
“If you want peace of mind, shut the gate behind you. Shut the gate behind you, so that your worries are left behind. Do not touch the past – for remember, the past is dead and gone.”
“If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.”
“If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from within.”
“If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.”
“If you want peace, prepare for the war.”
“If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't
“If you want peace, understand war.”
“If you want peace, work for justice.”
Source: Christian Values and Virtues
“If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want justice, defend life.
If you want life, embrace truth.”
“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
“If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.”
“If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as a responsibility or not, the success or failure in Kosovo is going to be the success or failure of building, first, economic hope, and then trying to heal the damage that's been done.”
“If you want people respect you, you must be consummated about how to demonstrate yourself. All the skills are one or another way of befooling.”
“If you want people to believe in you, you have to know your own worth.”
Source: Sally's Lament
“If you want people to believe you, accept your ideas, or follow you, just tell them 'Ben Franklin said it…..”
“If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.”
“If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I've always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it's because people think I look a little crazy.”
“If you want people to like you you have to buy them things.”
“If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.”
“If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.”
“If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.”
“If you want people to respect you or your company, you must first show respect for them.”
“If you want people to take your advice, you need to solve more problems than you create.”
Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
“If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!”
“If you want people to trust you, you will need to be a person who keeps her word.
No matter what your role.
No matter what your industry.
Do what you say you will.”
Source: Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job
“If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.”
Source: How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life
“If you want people to value and respect you, you must value your time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.”
“If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.”
“If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.”