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 know these demands of life, you would gain a quicker success, at a greater pace, with less stress than otherwise.”
“If you would know this country, you must know its stories.”
“If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.”
Source: The Cat, Past and Present
“If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.”
“If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.”
“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
“If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!”
“If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.”
“If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself.”
Source: Walden; or, Life in the Woods
“If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”
Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.”
“If you would like to know more about me look to the pages of my books and you'll find me in between the lines.”
“If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.”
“If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.”
“If you would like to promote your book, first forget about words "traffic", "marketing" and "social media". You are looking for real humans after all.”
Source: The First 100 Days of Your Book: Book Marketing for Self-Published Authors
“If you would like to stop hating someone or something, just stop blaming and the hate will disappear and turn into liking or love.”
“If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen - editors, agents and publishers - whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not so high.”
“If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.”
“If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.”
Source: Commentaries on Living
“If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.”
Source: I Come Quietly to Meet You: An Intimate Journey in God's Presence
“If you would live innocently, seek solitude.”
“If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.”
“If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.”
Source: Brownson's Quarterly Review
“If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.”
“If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.”
“If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.”
Source: Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.”
“If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”
“If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.”
“If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.”
Source: Of knowledge
“If you would not spend time looking at it, do not ship it. One of the best quality assurance rules of thumb is to avoid publishing content that you would not consume. Simple, yet so hard to execute on. My audience deserves my very best. Repeat that to yourself every single day.”
Source: Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
“If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.”
“If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.”
Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
“If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.”
“If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.”
Source: As You Think: Second Edition
“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”
“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”
“If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church”
Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
“If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds, Gentle Words and useful Deeds.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.”
“If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.”
“If you would rise, do so alone.”
“If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.”
“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”
Source: Essays
“If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940
“If you would seek health, look first to the spine.”