I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present”
“If you worry because bad things might happen, you suffer from the things that are yet to happen. If they don’t happen, it means you suffered for nothing and if they do happen, it means you suffered for nothing again”
Source: Modern Human's Handbook
“If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.”
“If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.”
“If you worry, you harm yourself and you neglect to care for me. But if you pray, you bless us both.”
Source: Fire Road: The Napalm Girl’s Journey through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
“If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?”
“If you worship fire in the freezing cold, you won't be doing anything ridiculous; if you worship ice in the heat as hell, you won't be doing anything ridiculous! You don't have to worship something, but I say to you, if you insist on worshiping something, then there should be some logic in your worship!”
“If you worship God, you will not worry.”
“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”
“If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.”
“If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.”
“If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.”
“If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.”
“If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.”
“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”
“If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7”
Source: The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”
“If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.”
“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”
“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.”
Source: Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic
“If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.”
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.”
Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
“If you would be a writer, first be a reader”
“If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.”
“If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.”
Source: A Cynic Looks at Life
“IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.”
“If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.”
“If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.”
“If you would be happy and content, you must let go of regret and resentment. Any regret or resentment for what has been done to you or even for harmful things you have done to others dispels your happiness.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.”
“If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.”
“If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.”
“If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.”
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”
“If you would be less concerned with someone else's shine and focus on your grind, you would see the growth and progress that you desire in your own life.”
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you would be pungent, be brief.”
“If you would be pure, saturate yourself with the Word of God.”
“If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.”
“If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.”
“If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.”
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
Source: The Way to Wealth
“If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.”