I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s not easy to pledge yourself to a cause. Duty is like armor. It’s heavy, and it’s not always comfortable. It’s a promise to yourself to do what’s right. When your courage is tested, remain calm. Remember why you started. Then run as fast as you can toward the fight, knowing that no matter how it ends, you’ve stayed true to your cause and yourself. Loyalty and bravery, combined, are greater than any super-power.”
Source: What Makes a Hero
“It’s not easy to transform a culture built on exclusion. It’s hard to cooperate with people who want to dominate. But we don’t have a choice. We can’t just make the insiders into the new outsiders and call it change. We have to include everyone, even those who want to exclude us. It’s the only way to build the world we want to live in. Others have used their power to push people out. We have to use out power to bring people in. We can’t just add one more warring faction. We have to end factions. It’s the only way we become one.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“It's not easy to trust people with your earphones, let alone trusting them with your life. So, when someone decides to go against nature and trust another human, don't fail them.”
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
“It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn’t have to suffer.” Instead, our “sorrow and indignation” should prompt us to act in ways that “subvert” that brokenness.”
“It’s not enough for French mothers to have pleasures and interests apart from their children. They also want their kids to know about these things. They believe it’s burdensome for a child to feel that she’s the sole source of her mother’s happiness and satisfaction. (A Parisian mother I know told me she was going back to work partly for her daughter’s sake.)”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
“It’s not enough for IT only focus on the bottom line - keeping the lights on; it has to contribute more on business growth.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“It’s not enough for me to be sure that you and I are together. I want to know if we’re on a shared path to ecstasy.”
“It's not enough for the torch of liberty to be held up high only by one woman, every human must hold the torch up high in every corner of the world.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“It's not enough for us to mourn and resist the suffering and oppression of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. We must also dare to imagine a world in which we are all embraced and celebrated in life-giving mutuality. We must stir our imaginations to conceive of a Church where every member of this vibrant Body is recognized for the divine image we reflect.
And before we nod in easy agreement to this truth, we must also recognize that we have been conditioned into a crisis of imagination. We have lost so much of that creative capacity- and we must rekindle it! And one crucial way to do that is to elevate those lives and voices that demonstrate that imagination, found most often among those very people who live under that suffering and oppression.
As Walter Brueggemann reminds us, "It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.”
“It's not enough, he whispered against her. It will never be enough.”
Source: Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow
“It's not enough just to buy condoms, Cassidy; you have to use them.”
Source: Kiss of the Highlander
“It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any large scale is either figure out a way of getting yourself associated in the audience's mind with their pieties and their sense of 'community,' i.e. ram it home that you're one of THEM; or, alternately, deck and bake yourself into an image configuration so blatant or outrageous that you become a culture myth.”
“It’s not enough nearly to survive. One needs to flourish. One must not look to fly low. One must emulate Icarus and try to fly as high as possible. Damn the sun. Let’s make heat-resistant wax for our wings!”
Source: The Source of Dreams: When Human Imagination Died
“It's not enough that i know all that's in me, everyone else must know it, too: Pierre, and that girl who wanted to fly into the sky, everyone must know me, so that my life is not only for myself; so that they don't live like that girl, independently of my life, but so that it is reflected in everyone, and they all live together with me!”
Source: War and Peace
“It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.”
Source: In the Age of Love
“It's not enough that you're doing your job. You must also do it with integrity and compassion. Failure to do so is failure to do your job right.”
“It’s not enough to be a future-oriented person. You must also have the gift of foresight to know what your future-self will thank you for doing today…and just get on with it.”
“It’s not enough to be a good woman, it’s even more important that you should be a sensual woman.”
“It's not enough to be a national hero of one nation,
You gotta be a national hero of all nations.
That day I shall call you a human of earth,
When you are the gateway to world illumination.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“It's not enough to be born as a human body, each human must earn his or her admission into the human race with humane actions.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“It's not enough to be in love with love. You must be willing to suffer with Him (Jesus), too.”
Source: Canticle
“It's not enough to be just a consumer, you gotta be a conscious consumer, otherwise there is no difference between a consumer and a slave.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“It’s not enough to delegate a task. Give the person the responsibility and authority to get it done.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“It's not enough to exist - animals exist, but it's the humans who have the brain capacity to live. So, live my friend, without effort, without worry, without ambition, without pride- live with dignity,contentment and the idea that gives your life value. If you truly genuinely want to do something, you just do it - just like the river flows without having any ambition to flow - the sun doesn't have an ambition to shine - it is in the ambition-less, pride-less, non-judgmental, non-conceptual, non-conflicting flow of action, that lies the force of life. So, flow like the river - shine like the sun - if you want to live - then live without the run.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“It’s not enough to have freedom, one must know how to practice that freedom.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“It’s not enough to have gotten rid of slavery in our own countries, we have to make sure that it never happens to another single human being anywhere.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“It’s not enough to hear someone else’s voice or to sing someone else’s song or to play the note that you heard someone else play. I had to tune into my sound and by doing so, I have recovered not only the sound of my voice but the sound of my life.”
“It’s not enough to just enter into a relationship with a person because you believe or they say that they love you. A person can’t just be in love with you, they have to be in love with your purpose also. And ultimately your purpose is growth.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“It’s not enough to just imagine the future. To bring an idea to fruition we must struggle with the uncompromising realities of the physical world. We need not only knowledge but also tenacity.”
Source: The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
“It's not enough to just know the goal. We have to do the work!”
Source: Less Stuff: Simple Zero-Waste Steps To A Joyful And Clutter-Free Life
“It’s not enough to know thyself. You must also be thyself.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.”
Source: I Kill the Mockingbird
“It’s not enough to know what we’re trying to do—we also have to know what it means to reach the finish line.
In other words, what exactly do we have to do before we can say we’re done?”
Source: The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
“It's not enough to leave the jungle, we have to throw the jungle off our heart. It's not enough to leave the caves, we have to smash the caves within. Only then shall we instill the greenery of gentleness in this cold world of concrete.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.”
Source: Forgive To Win!: End Self-Sabotage. Get Everything You Want
“It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.”
“It’s not enough to live while you are alive, you must live even after you are dead, and to live even after death you must do good while you are alive.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.”
“It's not enough to outgrow the divisions in culture, we must also outgrow the divisions in intellect. For example, if you think theology is all about the supernatural, it doesn't mean the entire field of theology is nonsense, it just means, you are studying the wrong kind of theology – you are stuck with an archaic notion of theology. Likewise, if you think science is all about cold facts and figures, then you are studying the wrong kind of science – you are stuck with an archaic notion of science.
Till you develop a common humane ground underneath your feet, all the facts and all the faith won't do you any good.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“It’s not enough to pray for peace… you have to fight for it, with the pen!!”
“It’s not enough to read, to listen, to be passive. One must act.”
Source: Jesus, Prince of Hell
“It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all—I mean, behind it—the answer lies in”
Source: Going Down
“It’s not enough to say that you’ll do what’s right; it’s what you actually do that makes the difference.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“It's not enough to simply "be", what's required is to "be human".”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“It’s not enough to tell you I’m worth it. Instead, I’ll show you.”
“It’s not enough to watch the great people in our lives and wish ourselves to be like them. Rather, it’s realizing that we need to wish ourselves to be the best version of us. For then, we will be like the people we’ve been watching.”
“It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one.”
“It's not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only a relationship, but this special relationship between two things of different kinds....In sum, all the seemingly complicated kinds of modification in English are just ways of thinking and seeing how things go with each other or reflect each other. Modifiers in our language are not aids to understanding relationships; they are the ways to understand relationships. A mistake in this matter either comes from or causes a clouded mind. Usually it's both.”
Source: Less Than Words Can Say