I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”
Source: The Way to Wealth
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”
“It is easier to change the topic than to change the mind. Tell someone you do not speak to your mother and they always say you should instead of why.”
Source: She Is Haunted: Stories
“It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971): Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
“It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).”
“It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.”
“It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.”
Source: Da Vinci Notebooks
“It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.”
“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”
“It is easier to cross a burning bridge with God than a safe highway with the Devil.”
“It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.”
“It is easier to defy those you love than to listen to those you hate.”
“It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.”
“It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.”
“It is easier to die bravely than to live so.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.”
“It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.”
“It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.”
“It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.”
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.”
“It is easier to do business and work with people who are most like ourselves.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.”
“It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.”
Source: The second sin
“It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.”
“It is easier to earn fame than earning a fortune.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.”
“It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.”
“It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.”
“It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.”
“It is easier to fight an army than to fight your conscience.”
“It is easier to fight your fears than to harbor your anxieties.”
“It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.”
“It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.”
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
“It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.”
“It is easier to find what you are unconsciously looking for than what you are consciously looking for.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.”
“It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.”
“It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.”
Source: Known and Unknown: A Memoir
“It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.”
Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric