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 what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.”
“it is not what you do or don't do, but how convincingly you can be accused of it.”
Source: Blood & Beauty
“It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.”
“It is not what you do. It is that you do.”
“It is not what you first think. There is no effort of will, no firm resolve in the face of this thing called living. There is only paying attention to the quiet each morning, while you hold your cup in the cool air & then that moment you choose to spread your love like a cloth upon the table & invite the whole day in again.”
Source: Theories of Everything
“It is not what you get, but what you make out of what you get determines your destiny”
Source: MEET THE REAL YOU: Rediscover your Forgotten Self, Master your Mind & Emotions, Raise Karma and Win the Game of Life
“It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.”
“It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.”
“It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.”
“It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.”
“It is not what you say, but how you say, that's important. 99% Fat Free product seems more healthy than a product with 1% Fat.”
“It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.”
Source: The Power of Self-Confidence: Become Unstoppable, Irresistible, and Unafraid in Every Area of Your Life
“It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.”
Source: Selected essays
“It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.”
Source: God Spoke to Me
“It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.”
“It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.”
“It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true.”
Source: Neville's Spiritual Classics
“It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must do in the interests of the country, which put you in such position, such post as the Head of the Russian State.”
“It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.”
“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.”
“It is not where you come from that matters”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.”
Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches
“It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.”
“It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.”
“It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.”
“It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.”
Source: Poetical works
“It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.”
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”
“It is not who you are NOW, it is what GOD says you are that matter.”
“It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.”
“It is not who you know it is what you know - If you don't know anything, you won't know anyone”
“It is not wholly true, and it is not perfectly ‘theocentric’. It takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man’s eyes off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars. (One result is for observation of the actual to make the young man turn cynical.) To forget their desires, needs and temptations. It inculcates exaggerated notions of ‘true love’, as a fire from without, a permanent exaltation, unrelated to age, childbearing, and plain life, and unrelated to will and purpose. (One result of that is to make young folk look for a ‘love’ that will keep them always nice and warm in a cold world, without any effort of theirs; and the incurably romantic go on looking even in the squalor of the divorce courts).”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.”
“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”
Source: Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right
“It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.”
“It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.”
“It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power over our economy. My recommendation for reducing some of that power is to repeal legal tender laws and eliminate all taxes on gold, silver and platinum transactions. That way there would be money substitutes and the government money monopoly would be reduced and hence the ability to tax - some people would say steal from - us through inflation.”
“It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.”
“It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]”
“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.”
Source: Salome
“It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”
Source: Fair Game
“it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
“It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.”
“It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?”
Source: Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story
“It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.”
“It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.”
“It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.”
Source: The Way to Life: Sermons
“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”