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 catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.”
Source: Murder on the Orient Express
“If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.”
“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”
“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”
“If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”
“If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.”
Source: The World's First Love
“If you wish to cry, cry.”
“If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.”
“If you wish to die, die in the rage of a battle, not in the cage of a cattle”
“If you wish to disassemble everything that you ‘are’ in order to reassemble yourself into something that you are ‘not,’ all that you will have left will be a pile of pieces that will be neither.”
“If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?”
Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
“If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.”
Source: Warleggan
“If you wish to discover a person's true nature, give them everything necessary to be happy.”
Source: Sophizo
“If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“If you wish to do well, do not be wicked.”
“If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.”
“If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.”
“If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position”
“If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.”
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.”
“If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.”
“If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.”
“If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.”
“If you wish to find a needle in a haystack, light a match.”
“If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.”
“If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible.”
“If you wish to find your answers, you’ll need to begin thinking, not merely reacting.
-- Lily”
Source: An Artificial Night
“If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you”
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)
“If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”
“If you wish to give chance on others' abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves.
Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!”
Source: Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
“If you wish to good ways, study the word of God.”
“If you wish to grow in spirit, feed on the spiritual food, the HOLY WORD.”
“If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.”
“If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.”
“If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.”
“If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.”
“If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“If you wish to know hell before your time,' a Confederate officer wrote, 'go to Saint Simons Island and be hunted for ten days' by colored troops.”
Source: Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
“If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.”
“If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.”
Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”
“If you wish to know the real meaning of love then find the inspiration behind the creation of mankind.”
“If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.”
Source: This Thing Called You
“If you wish to know the truth of who you are,
follow the voice that calls you home.
Go there.
For where our love is,
there we will be.”
Source: One Whole Naked Me