I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is better to be idle than employed in ill.”
“It is better to be in the company of a good book than to be in the company of bad friends.”
“It is better to be killed than frightened to death.”
“It is better to be kind than be impolite.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is better to be kind than right.”
“It is better to be kind than to be unkind. Be kind, kindness matters”
Source: A Snowy Day
“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”
“It is better to be lonely than to wish to be alone.”
“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.”
Source: The Walk: A Novel
“It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”
Source: The Prince
“It is better to be lovers of purity than lovers of pleasure.”
“It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.”
“It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.”
Source: The Story of the Malakand Field Force
“It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.”
Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.
“It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.”
“It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.”
“It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.”
“It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.”
Source: Ionia: A Quest
“It is better to be poor and free than to be rich and in bondage.”
“It is better to be poor and wise than to be rich and foolish.”
“It is better to be poor than to be ignorant.”
“It is better to be positive than negative.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is better to be prepared by small sorrows in life, than a life of joy with one big one - that breaks you.”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“It is better to be redeemed than be rich.”
“It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.”
“It is better to be rich and exclaim, what's the point of all these things, than to be poorer and say, what's the point of being rich anyway.”
“It is better to be rich in love than to be rich in gold.”
“It is better to be rich in love than to be wealthy in gold.”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
“It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles”
“It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.”
“It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.”
“It is better to be single than in a bad relationship.”
Source: Learning to Dance in the Rain II: Surviving Grief, Internet Dating and Romance Scams
“It is better to be slave to Jesus Christ than the sin of satan.”
“It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan.”
“It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin.”
“It is better to be slave to the Saviour than satan.”
“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.”
“It is better to be sorrowful than sad.”
“It is better to be surprised by a simulation, rather than blindsided by reality”
“It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.”
“It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.”
“It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused.”