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 help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you.”
Source: The House Is on Fire
“If you want to help anybody, go help people in need.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
Source: In an Absent Dream
“If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.”
Source: Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others
“If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.”
“If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.”
“If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty.”
Source: Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen
“If you want to help someone - get yourself together”
“If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This categorizes people, rather than experiences with that person. People are not all evil or all good. You don’t teach compassion by categorizing people. Empathy and honest open communication are the only way to live your life. If you’re blaming someone then you haven’t let go of your pain long enough to really try on theirs. However, if you must believe that the only type of person that brings you difficult lessons or experiences in life are those that are bad or worse, then take the time to read the bible a little closer. Christ, put a few people in their place, in order to make point.”
“If you want to help the poor, don't be poor”
Source: The Wealth Chef: Recipes to Make Your Money Work Hard, So You Don't Have To
“If you want to hide it, paint it red.”
“If you want to hide your face, you don't need to wear a mask, just wear a very different shoe and people will look at your feet! The most creative art of hiding is to direct people's attention elsewhere and hide something that you do not want to be seen by others, while it is clearly visible to others!”
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.”
“If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.”
“If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.”
“If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.”
“If you want to hit me, scratch me, punch me, I'll take it. If you want to yank my hair, spit on me, kick me, I'll endure it. I deserve to be punished. Leave your mark on my body. Show me how much I hurt you, then show me again. Because I'm prepared to withstand anything in order to keep you by my side.”
Source: I Am Yours
“If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.”
Source: The Early Simple Stories
“If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.”
“If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.”
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
“If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.”
“If you want to impress a lady, respect her, because respect is an impressive act itself”
Source: Absolute Love Letter
“If you want to impress someone with how much you know, the best thing you can do is talk to them about . . . them. People typically love to share their stories and are delighted when others show genuine interest in hearing about: their families, what they do for fun, their opinions, where they are going on vacation, their happiest memories, their hobbies, or even where they grew up.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!”
“If you want to improve, know, with no reason at all.”
“If you want to improve performance and productivity, set a vision that inspires and delights.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of health insurance, you got another guess coming.”
“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.”
“If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.”
“If you want to improve your company's sales, improve your company's support”
“If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.”
“If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.”
“If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?”
Source: 7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know
“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“If you want to improve your wayfinding skills tremendously, you must experience getting lost to the fullest!”
“If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.”
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other”
Source: The Handbook of Epictetus
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Source: The Handbook of Epictetus
“If you want to increase productivity, cut the timeline in half.”
“If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!”
Source: Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students
“If you want to influence a country’s intellectual trend, the first step is to bring order to your own ideas and integrate them into a consistent case. Knowledge necessarily includes the ability to apply abstract principles in specific issues, to demonstrate them, and to advocate a consistent course of action.
What is required is honesty - intellectual honesty, which consists in knowing what one does know, constantly expanding one’s knowledge, and never evading or failing to correct a contradiction”
“If you want to innovate, to change an enterprise of society, it takes people willing to do what is not expected.”
“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales
“If you want to inspire someone, give them a vision of their future self.”
“If you want to inspire the world, first inspire yourself.”
“If you want to instill peace on earth, then you must let go of your diplomatic tenets and start thinking as a plain, ordinary, conscientious human.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel.”
“If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.”