I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.”
Source: Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists
“It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.”
“It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.”
“It is our deepest hurts which have the power to help and heal us. What else carries an internal fire big enough to force us forwards? What else has the momentum to wake us up? What else has enough pain to make us long for something better? What else will drive us into the waiting arms of that beautiful, invisible life-force which yearns to help us? What else will teach us to feel the love which has no betrayal; the love which seeks only good?”
Source: Love, Devotion, and Longing
“It is our desire, not need, to be loved (back).”
“It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.”
“It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.”
“It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.”
“It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.”
“It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.”
Source: The Unclassed
“It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.”
Source: A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments
“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.”
“It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.”
Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti
“It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.”
“It is our duty to ensure we have a peace worth fighting for.”
Source: The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions.”
“It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people ... our African brothers and sisters.”
“It is our duty to guide the future of our nation now, don't just say that they are directionless, characterless or any other less, add your part in this matter, be the character & direction you want to see in them, be the big shining sun for them that they could shin like a star in your light.”
“It is our duty to guide the future of our nation now, don't just say that they are directionless, characterless or any other less people, add your part in this matter, be the character & direction you want to see in them, be the big shining sun for them that they could shine like stars in your light.”
“It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.”
Source: Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches
“It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction.”
Source: An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, with Respect to Faith and Practice, Upon the Plan of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity
“It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless”
“It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.”
“It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.”
“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.”
Source: Life and Times of Subhas Chandra Bose, as Told in His Own Words
“It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.”
“It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.”
“It is our duty to recognize the importance of every person”
“It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.”
“It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.”
“It is our duty to serve those who serve us.”
“It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday”
Source: The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.”
“It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.”
“It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility:
Speak as little as possible of oneself.
Mind one's own business.
Avoid curiosity.
Do not want to manage other people's affairs.
Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.
Pass over the mistakes of others.
Accept blame when innocent.
Yield to the will of others.
Accept insults and injuries.
Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.
Be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Do not seek to be specially loved and admired.
Never stand on one's dignity.
Yield in discussion even when one is right.
Choose always the hardest.”
Source: The Love of Christ
“It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.”
“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering, that's the enemy. That is the only enemy worth fighting.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
“It is our expectation of how things should be, it is our anticipation of the future, which puts us in a state of misery.”
Source: That Thing About You
“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”
“It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.”
“It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.”
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.”
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.”
“It is our faith in Jesus Christ that sustains us at the crossroads of life's journey.”
“It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.”
Source: Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation
“It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong”