I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”
Source: The Children's Hospital
“It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.”
“It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.”
“It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.”
“It takes generosity to be the one teaching, and humility to be the one being taught.”
“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”
“It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.”
“It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It takes good memory to keep up a lie”
“It takes grace to endure hardtimes”
“It takes grace to stop working and go to bed. When in bed, more grace is needed to rise up and begin work again.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.”
“It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.”
Source: The House at the End of Hope Street
“It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.”
“It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.”
“It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.”
Source: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study
“It takes great courage to love unconditionally.”
Source: A Letter to My Father: What Your Son Wants to Tell You But Doesn't
“It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.”
Source: The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization
“It takes great courage to relive one's past," Loelle said. "But you are the sum of all your memories. To withhold the bad would be to deprive yourself of all that those difficult times taught you. You can do this, Kestra.”
Source: The Warrior's Curse
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”
“It takes great courage when you are suffering to see beyond your suffering to the clear relations between things, to the laws that cause and govern your suffering; it takes great courage to be ruthless with one's griefs.”
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
“It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.”
“It takes great generosity to accept generosity.”
“It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.”
Source: More Classics Revisited
“It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”
“It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.”
“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.”
“It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.”
“It takes great willpower to pull ourselves together and stand up again. But once we stand up, everything gradually comes together.”
“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”
“It takes greater faith to dance in the dark than to rest in light.”
“It takes greater strength to love than to hate.”
“It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.”
“It takes gumption to wake up every day to face the fickle world and cleave to your morals and values
Not flinch at the slightest inflection of disrespect or disdain from wild ones
to not give in and mimic the mockery of blending in void of integrity
Standing resplendent among the dull and dirty ones who are no longer enthralled with the light of living
Who’ve renounced their identity for worldy pleasures
It takes audacity to live individually, intellectually, compassionately in your own way
Do it anyway!”
“It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It takes guts to get out of the ruts.”
Source: Living Positively One Day at a Time
“It takes guts to listen to our gut...”
Source: The Places I've Cried in Public
“It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected.”
Source: Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02
“It takes hard writing to make easy reading.”
“It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks”
“It takes heart to battle great challenges, great faith to be victorious over them.”
“It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart.”
“It takes humility and courage—two of life’s great lessons—to admit one’s mistakes and correct them.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.”
“It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.”