I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.”
“If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.”
“If you would call on the Saviour, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, you shall be saved.”
“If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”
“If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.”
“If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.”
“If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn’t receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny”
“If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it.”
“If you would encourage yourself, appreciate, recognize and value your strengths, work on the things you can control and get out of your own way this will empower you to become stronger and fearless and position you for greater success.”
“If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.”
“If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.”
“If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.”
“If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.”
“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.”
“If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.”
“If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.”
“If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.”
“If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.”
“If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately.”
“If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.”
Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed
“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
“If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.”
“If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven;" and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.”
“If you would have fucked me
I would have been ok being Plath”
Source: Rome: Poems
“If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.”
“If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.”
Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering
“If you would have met me when I first started wrestling - or even five, six, seven, eight years into wrestling - you wouldn't be like "This person is a dynamic personality on the screen." That would have never happened. That's something that's evolved. You just keep putting yourself out there and you keep working at that sort of thing and you can get better at it.”
“If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.”
Source: Lion of Ireland
“If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.”
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
Source: In the Harbor
“If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.”
Source: Enchiridion
“If you would judge, understand.”
“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
“If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.”
Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie
“If you would know a man’s good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and the friends with whom he mixes intimately. If the lord is not correct, none of his friends and retainers will be correct.”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”
“If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.”
Source: Expositions of Holy Scripture
“If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
Source: Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country
“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”
“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
Source: The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth
“If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims