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 know the truth, read the holy Scriptures.”
“If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.”
“If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.”
“If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities.”
“If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.”
Source: Mathematical Discovery
“If you wish to leave a legacy, the things you do cannot matter only to you.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“If you wish to leave, do so by all means. Bother to let me know so I don't wait like a fool, by the locked door for you.”
“If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.”
“If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.”
Source: Enchiridion
“If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.”
“If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!”
“If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.”
“If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.”
“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“If you wish to make a significant impression on the people you meet, then listen more than you speak when in conversation.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Source: Cosmos
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.”
Source: The Education of a Gardener
“If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.”
“If you wish to make music, you must be completely in tune with yourself first.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”
“If you wish to marry well, inquire well.”
“If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.”
“If you wish to occupy the victory seat, you ought to be willing enough to plant the victory seed.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.”
“If you wish to plan for anything, plan for change.”
“If you wish to play with steel, don't get attach to satin.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you wish to point the way, you must first take the high ground.”
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.”
“If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.”
Source: SOPHISMS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS.
“If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.”
“If you wish to prove your ability to love, you must go on living and show that you can sacrifice every day, in the small things as well as the big.”
Source: A Tale of Beauty and Beast
“If you wish to rebel, think for yourself. Relentlessly seek truth. But beware: the truth-seeking rebel’s path is a lonely one. Not many travel along it. The relentless pursuit of truth often—even usually—puts you at odds with the masses, who tend to follow the herd and respond to the loudest, most insistent voices. Resist these. Yes, you will often walk alone, but not to worry—truth gives its own rewards: purpose, progression, and peace. Seek truth, engage with it, and act upon it. It will compel you to listen, to love, and to lift.”
“If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]”
“If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.”
Source: Love: (
“If you wish to school ladies on how to win the affections—”
“The heart.”
“—of a duke,” he continued over that interposition, “do besure to advise them that they need not just know what pastimes to take part in, but that they actually do take part.”
Source: Five Days with a Duke
“If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.”
“If you wish to see God; look people in the eye, listen to them, and see how they treat other people.”
“If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.”
“If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.”
“If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”
“If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.”
“If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.”
“If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive”
“If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.”
Source: How to Converse with God
“If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.”
Source: The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
“If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.”
“If you wish to succeed, you must believe in yourself and look at everything positively”
Source: To Bee or Not to Bee: Winning Against All Odds
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.”
Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom