I Quotes
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“If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.”
Source: Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
“If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“If you were your thoughts and feelings, than who is it that is aware of those thoughts and feelings? Can thoughts be aware of themselves, or rather are you something greater than your thoughts?”
Source: Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges
“If you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, use Cosmic Ordering.”
Source: Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
“If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything.”
“If you weren’t held responsible for your mistakes, you weren’t making.”
“If you weren’t meant to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here”
Source: Replay: Black
“If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave."
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.
Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway," Fia says.
"That's courage.”
Source: Up From the Sea
“If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. "Not driving any more.”
“If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?”
“If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.”
“If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.”
“If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.”
“If you weren’t there, how do you know someone pushed her?” Sergeant Kenn asked. “Well …,” said Jared. “And what were you doing, running through a strange town at night?” “I was jogging?” Jared offered. “Without your shirt or your shoes?” “Uh,” said Jared.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“If you wholeheartedly expect success, it will happen.”
“If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.”
Source: Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
“If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.”
“If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.”
“If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.”
“If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.”
“If you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor to you.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.”
“If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.”
“If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.”
Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
“If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.”
“If you will change, things will change for you.”
“If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.”
“If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“If you will conduct a poll with most people in our world today and ask them to tell you what is the ideal life they dream about. Most people will tell you that they are dreaming of having a house on an island, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives.”
“If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.”
“If you will do what you CAN do, God will do what you CANNOT do.”
“If you will exchange your life for greatness, if you will use the currency of time to buy greatness; then greatness will deliver to you every other thing you need in life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you will excuse me, I must get to some pressing matters in the present.
I no longer need the safety of my mind.”
Source: Too Soon er Pero Too Late: French Grace. American Collapse. Colombian Care.
“If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.”
“If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.”
“If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.”
Source: The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists
“If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.”
“If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.”
“If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.”
“If you will have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.”
“If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will become great in life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will become great in life. You will become exceptional. You will become a specialist and the world would want to reckon with you.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.”
Source: General George Crook: His Autobiography
“If you will it, it is no dream”