I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.”
“In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.”
“In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.”
“In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.”
Source: The Ransomed Heart: A Collection of Devotional Readings
“In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.”
“In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible.”
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
“In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.”
“In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.”
Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.”
“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.”
“In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.”
“In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.”
“In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.”
“In the end, it only comes down to one thing: choosing the one you can’t live without.”
Source: Alpha
“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”
“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
“In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040.”
“In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.”
“In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.”
“In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.”
“In the end, it's all about perseverance.”
“In the end, it's all about taking your time and enjoying the journey without worrying too much about the destination.”
“In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.”
“In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?”
“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.”
“In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.”
“In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.”
“In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.”
“In the end, it’s all a question of balance.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.”
“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go”
“In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.”
“In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.”
“In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.”
Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom -- How to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business
“In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.”
Source: Graceling
“In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.”
Source: The Ultimate Gift
“In the end, life makes victims of us all.”
Source: The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice
“In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
“In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.”
“In the end, living is defined by dying.”
“In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.”
“In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!”
“In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.”
“In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.”
“In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.”