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 how many people you reach -- It's how many people you inspire.”
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
“It’s not how much you make each month that matters — it’s how much you save along with the flexibility and time outside work that you have.”
Source: The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way
“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.”
“It's not how you fall in life; it's how you get back up.”
“It’s not how you start that’s important, but how you finish!”
“It’s not, I’m damned if I do, I’m damned if I don’t. It’s, I love myself if I do, I love myself if I don’t. Minor shift, major results!”
“It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.”
Source: Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
“It’s not important if your past is true or not (good or bad). There is only now.”
“It's not important that we agree with each other, only that we understand each other.”
“It's not important, what is true or false, important is that, what is Right.”
“It's not important whether you lose or win, what is that you participate and play, one fine day your experience will make you win.”
“It's not important whether you worked hard or not. Ultimately it's about how the movie is. Nothing else matters.”
“It’s not in our best interest to make us feel guilt and shame for wanting to be beautiful in a stereotypical way. It’s being a human.”
“It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.”
“It's not insane to be depressed in this world. It's more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what's going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.”
Source: Hello Beautiful
“It's not just a beard, it's an adventure.”
“It's not just a MASK it's a life saving TASK".”
“It’s not just a matter of having lost the land and the wealth that came with it. It’s a matter of the fact that we lost a way of life that we should have been able to pass on to our children and to their children, but which we can’t because of what was taken from us. (Harris Neck, Georgia native Wilson Moran as quoted by Aberjhani in The American Poet Who Went Home Again)”
Source: The American Poet Who Went Home Again
“It's not just about adapting for survival; it's about building organizations that contribute positively to society now and for a long time to come, leaving a legacy of resilience, enduring value and stability for future generations.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“It’s not just about corruption. It’s about escape.”
Source: The Devil in the Holy City: How the Roman Catholic Church Corrupted Christianity
“It's not just about ideas
it's about making ideas happen
DO IT!”
Source: Investing Made Easy: 50 Extremely Beneficial Business that are Undeniable Cash Cows
“It's not just about making money; it's about giving or having something truly valuable, something good.”
“It's not just about Rodney. It's about all of us.”
Source: The Black Kids
“It's not just about standing out; it's about making an indelible mark in the hearts of men by impacting their lives.”
“It’s not just about the orgasms we’ve had, it’s about the journeys we’ve taken to the orgasms we’ve had.
The sensual journey is way more important than reaching orgasm—the final destination.”
“It’s not just about the orgasms we’ve had, it’s about the journeys we’ve taken to the orgasms wevyhaf. The sensual journey is way more important than reaching orgasm—the final destination.”
“It's not just about us. It's about those who'll come after us. If I need to pick up a damn brick like our lord and savior Marsha P. Johnson, then that's what I'll do.”
Source: Flash Fire
“It's not just about winning; it's about how you conduct yourself and represent your community.”
Source: Warrior Girl Unearthed
“It’s not just about working, but working effectively”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It’s not just all physical
I’m the type who will get oh so critical”
“It’s not just dark in Scandinavia.”
“It's not just food that creates(and recreates) you, your thoughts and your environment do as well.”
“It’s not just for little kids,” Miss Fountain corrects. “It’s for everybody. Positive reinforcement is something you never outgrow. Think of how much better our world would be if national leaders would only sit in a circle and be kind and civil to one another.”
Source: The Unteachables
“It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“It’s not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch,” he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves.”
Ourselves?
“Yes. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn’t help you when you get to where I am.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“It's not just that I don't like prom. I also don't like people who like prom," I explained, although, this was, in point of fact untrue. (book is Paper Towns)”
“It's not just that I'm dumb. Nakata's empty inside. I finally understand that. Nakata's like a library without a single book. It wasn't always like that. I used to have books inside me. For a long time I couldn't remember, but now I can. I used to be normal, just like everybody else. But something happened and I ended up like a container with nothing inside.”
“It’s not just that people learn to tolerate beetroot: they switch from dislike to adoration.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It’s not just the advertisement that matters in a product’s impact on the consumer brain, but also, something as subtle as the color scheme of a product’s packaging matters a great deal. Each color triggers certain emotional responses in the human brain, so the color-scheme of the packaging of a product must match correctly with the product’s nature and purpose.”
“It’s not just the big moments that count, it’s all of the small actions that feed our heart and soul on a daily basis.”
Source: Crossroads and the Dominion of Four
“It’s not just the big moments that count, it’s all of the small actions that feed our heart and soul on a daily basis. Cherish those moments and reflect on how to replicate them often.”
“It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.”
Source: Shantaram
“It's not just the crown that makes you the queen!”
“It's not just the foods we eat but the way we think about them.”
“It's not just the hair-prickling adventure. It's the relationship between the two of them. All await their newest adventure- and the next installment of Demon of Dartmoor. I predict Raven and Rowan shall... well, we shall see. It's not only their extraordinary encounters with all manner of unearthly creatures that hold everyone enthralled, but the pull between them. All I can say is that when the two are together- the combination of peril and passion- well, one can fairly feel the way they sizzle-and so does my flesh!"
"My God, you make it sound as if they're real people!"
"An acknowledgement to the author's talent to think of them so, don't you think?"
"Perhaps, but it sounds like an erotic novel, not a horror novel, or even a Gothic novel." Aidan tipped his head to the side. "Knowing you, Alec, now I begin to see why you are so entranced.”
Source: The Seduction Of An Unknown Lady
“It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy.”
“It’s not just the Spirit World that Ouija can reach. It can explore a realm every bit as strange, that of the unconscious mind, the mind of which we know nothing, precisely because it’s unconscious. Yet it’s an aspect of our own mind. Isn’t it bizarre that our own “hidden” mind is the biggest, and closest, mystery in our life!”
Source: The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija
“It's not just the taste, she will try to explain. The rich dark truffle, flavored with rum; the hint of chili in the blend; the yielding smoothness of the center and the bitterness of the cocoa-powder finish... none of these explain the strange allure of Yanne Charbonneau's chocolate truffles.
Perhaps it's the way they make you feel: stronger, perhaps; more powerful; more alert to the sounds and scents of the world; more aware of the colors and textures of things; more aware of yourself; of what's under the skin; of the mouth, of the throat, of the sensitive tongue.”
Source: The Girl with No Shadow
“It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.”