I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.”
“It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.”
“It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.”
“It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.”
“It is not good enough to get your horse to do what you want. It is far better to cause your horse to want to do it.”
“It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.”
“It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.”
“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”
“It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.”
Source: Modern Society
“It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature...scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the same of improved agriculture. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere support of a larger, but not a better or happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary...”
“It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
“It is not good news, but we have to face reality.”
“It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.”
“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.”
“It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.”
“It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.”
“It is not good to have a rule of many.”
“It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.”
“It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.”
“It is not good to hoard money and it is
equally unsanitary to hoard knowledge; the
more you hoard the less you think and the
lesser you know. - On Greed and Knowledge”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking”
“it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.”
Source: A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories
“It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.”
“It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.”
Source: Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science
“It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.”
“It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
“It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.”
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”
Source: The Pearl
“It is not goodness to be better than the worst.”
“It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.”
“It is not granted to us that what we wish for most of all will fall into our laps. Luck is no star-money falling into our laps when we stupidly stare into the starry skies and wait for something to happen. No.
We have to actively participate in searching for and creating our very own happiness.
In the Declaration of Independence, the pursuit of happiness is mentioned – it is one of the fundamental rights of every human being, as well as freedom and life itself. We cannot passively expect. We have to actively strive for it.
Every human can change his life for the better if he is willing to take the heat for it.
But it takes courage.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“It is not great faith we need so much as faith in a great God." - Hudson Taylor”
Source: Prayer: A Biblical Perspective
“It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.”
“It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.”
Source: The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
“It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.”
Source: Power Through Prayer
“It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .”
Source: A Speech on the Impending Revolution
“It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.”
“It is not greed that drives the but envy.”
“It is not greed that drives the world but envy.”
“It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.”
“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”
Source: The Sense of Wonder
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it’s gratefulness that makes us happy.”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.”
“It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.”
Source: Prose works