I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.”
Source: Posthumous Pieces
“In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.”
“In order to be fearless, just “fear” less.”
“In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“In order to be good, one needs to be virtuous, not "nice". In order to be true, one needs to be honest, not "authentic". In order to be wise, one needs to be discriminating, not "open-minded". And in order to be civilized, one needs to be principled, not "sophisticated".”
“In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.”
“In order to be happy, every person must have:
1. Something meaningful to do.
2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.)
3. Something to look forward to.
It's really that simple.”
Source: The Kissing Coach
“In order to be happy in this world, there is only one path, that of normality. There is no unhappiness if normality is maintained in everything that you do; in eating and drinking, in getting up-sitting down, in moving around, in working.”
Source: Who am I?
“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”
Source: Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions
“In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.”
“In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.”
“In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.”
“In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.”
“In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
“In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.”
Source: The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble
“In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.”
“In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.”
“In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.”
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
“In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be.”
“In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.”
“In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.”
“In order to be successful as a woman, teach your daughter to never apologize for her success. Men never have to apologize for it, why should the women who earned it? - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA”
“In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.”
“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”
Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
“In order to be successful in the digital space you must produce creative and original content in line with current social and media trends that is innovative enough to have a memorable impact.”
“In order to be successful, you must approach the challenge with a determination to succeed.”
“In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.”
“In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.”
“In order to be successful, you have to honor what's in old fashion house, but you also have to play with it and push the limits of it.”
“In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.”
“In order to be sure that she would not lose him in the shadows, she had assigned him a corner of the bedroom, the only one where he would be safe from the dead people who wandered through the house after sundown. "If you do anything bad", Ursula would tell him, "the saints will let me know". The terror-filled nights of his childhood were reduced to that corner where he would remain motionless until it was time to go to bed, perspiring with fear on a stool under the watchful and glacial eyes of the tattletale saints.”
“In order to be surprised, I could not have known already that you are capable of anything.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.”
“In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.”
Source: Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living
“In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.”
“In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.”
“In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.”
“In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.”
“In order to be truthful
We must do more than speak the truth.
We must also hear truth.
We must also receive truth.
We must also act upon truth.
We must also search for truth.
The difficult truth
Within us and around us.
We must devote ourselves to truth.
Otherwise we are dishonest
And our lives are mistaken.
God grant us the strength and the courage
To be truthful.
Amen”
Source: When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God
“In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.”
Source: When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God