I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you wish to abrogate all responsibility for your moral and intellectual independence, then by all means - conform with the herd and obey blindly.”
Source: The Crane War
“If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.”
Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
“If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.”
Source: Goethe : [selected Verse]
“If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.”
Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
“If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.”
“If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.”
“If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down”
“If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror”
“If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”
“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.”
“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
“If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.”
“If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.”
“If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.”
“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”
Source: Enchiridion
“If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change”
Source: Brisingr
“If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart.”
“If you wish to be happy, you can begin by thinking, “Everybody has something good in him; there is something that I can learn from every human being.”
“If you wish to be happy, you have to choose happiness over wealth, power, success or fame. You have to accord happiness the highest priority in life.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618”
“If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.”
“If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.”
Source: Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life
“If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.”
Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny
“If you wish to be loved, love.”
“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”
“If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.”
“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
“If you wish to be paid, you must be willing to work.”
“If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.”
“If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.”
“If you wish to be refreshed, rest.”
“If you wish to be save, call on the Saviour.”
“If you wish to be saved, Call on the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“If you wish to be saved from the evil of sin, call on the Saviour, the LORD Jesus Christ.”
“If you wish to be strengthen, your heart must be fully committed to Sovereign LORD.”
“If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out; it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.”
“If you wish to become better, do your best.”
“If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.”
“If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.”
“If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.”
“If you wish to bludgeon badgers or beavers or remove peregrine falcons and hen harrier chicks from their nests, a way can be found. If you wish, on the other hand, to restore fading species for nature conservation purposes, then you have to fill in 90-page documents which will be thoroughly scrutinized eventually and returned to you with a further suite of impossibly complex questions.”
Source: Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species
“If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity”
“IF YOU WISH TO BRING PEACE UPON YOUR OWN, YOU MUST FIGHT THOSE WHO WISH FOR THE SAME PEACE.”
“If you wish to build humanity anew, begin with the child.”
“If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for”