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 to be changed, read a good book.”
“If you want to be clear, act.”
“If you want to be comfortable with your thoughts, don’t ask me what I’m thinking.”
“If you want to be confident, but don't normally act that way, today, just this once, act in the physical world the way you believe a confident person would.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.”
Source: But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings
“If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.”
“If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"”
“IF YOU WANT TO BE CREATIVE, TIME MAY BE YOUR FIRST PURCHASE.”
“If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.”
“If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.”
“If you want to be deeply respected, deeply respect as many people as possible.”
“If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.”
“If you want to be different, do something different.”
“If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“If you want to be easily forgotten, do not add any value anywhere, but if you want to be a success, add value as much as you can.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.”
“If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.”
“If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”
Source: How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead In This Social and Business Life
“If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.”
“If you want to be excellent at something, it involves moving away from your comfort zone, overcoming doubt, setbacks and failure. Don't give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. Success and winning will be yours.”
“If you want to be excellent at something, you must move away from your comfort zone, overcome doubt, setbacks and failure. Never give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. One day, success will be yours.”
“If you want to be exclusive with someone and he gives you the runaround, honor your intentions and walk away (unless your goal isn't to be with the guy but rather to write a song, screenplay, or book. If that's it--you're on the right track). Continue searching for a man who wants what you want.”
Source: Loves Me... Not: How to Survive (and Thrive!) in the Face of Unrequited Love
“If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.”
“If you want to be famous forever, emulate Jesus's character, picture it in your mind, and never show off.”
“If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever youre doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.”
“If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.”
“If you want to be favoured and fruitful in life, first of all, work on your Faith.
Learn to apply Faith even to the little things. You will be happy to realize that Faith works in your favour.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.”
“If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.”
“If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.”
“If you want to be free be free”
“If you want to be free in a capitalistic System, you are forced to take away the Freedom of others, or to sacrifice your own, against your Will, for a longer Period of Time, whereby you lose it again – one Way or the Other, the Bank wins.”
“If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”
“If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you’d never have to face otherwise.”
“If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”
Source: I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
“If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.”
“If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.”
“If you want to be free, learn to live simply.”
Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age
“If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.”
“If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!”
“If you want to be friendly with puppies and everyone else because they're so cute, you better be nice to your owners.”
“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”
“If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.”
“If you want to be good, practice, practice, practice.”
“If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.”
“If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.”