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 serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something
tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worthwhile, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.”
“If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.”
Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)
“If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“If you would sit by me, a new light would come into play, for I would reveal the deepest secrets of spring. I would show you how blossoms open in the thick of winter, how snowdrops speak of new beginnings, and hope flames on the frigid grounds.”
“If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.”
“If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.”
“If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.”
“If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“If you would take one step forward, darling, you could cry in my arms. And while you do, I'll tell you how sorry I am for everything I've done -" Unable to wait, Ian caught her, pulling her tightly against him. "And when I'm finished," he whispered hoarsely as she wrapped her arms around him and wept brokenly, "you can help me find a way to forgive myself."
Tortured by her tears, he clasped her tighter and rubbed his jaw against her temple, his voice a ravaged whisper: "I'm sorry," he told her. He cupped her face between his palms, tipping it up and gazing into her eyes, his thumbs moving over her wet cheeks. "I'm sorry." Slowly, he bent his head, covering her mouth with his. "I'm so damned sorry.”
Source: Almost Heaven
“If you would take, you must first give.”
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
“If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.”
Source: The collected works of Watchman Nee
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.”
Source: The Duties of Parents
“If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“If you would truly govern men, dive to their utmost depths. For men are more than foaming waves. But to dive to the utmost depts of men, you must first dive to your own utmost depth.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.”
Source: That I May Know Him,
“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development”
“If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically.”
“If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.”
“If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn”
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.”
Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“If you would work on the things you can control versus investing time into things that you have no control over you will feel more empowered and a greater sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.”
“If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.”
Source: The Writer's Art
“If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.”
“If you wouldn't invite a thief in your house why would you allow a liar in. the only difference between the two is the thief steals your money and objects the liar steals with words by deceit of manipulation by Bonnie Zackson Koury”
“If you wouldn't take on their regrets, don't you dare envy their highlights.”
“If you wouldn’t want to hang out with someone who was constantly bashing you with a barrage of belittling insults, why would you allow them to live in your head?”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“If you wouldn't wear your own words, don't ask someone else to carry them for you.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”
Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
“If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.”
“If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...”
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
Source: On Writing
“If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.”
“If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.”
“If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.”
“If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.”
“If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.”
“If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.”
“If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.”
“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”
“If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.”
“If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.”
“If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.”